"Don't you drink? I notice you speak..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.
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“My advice to girls: first, don't smoke - to excess; second, don't drink - to excess; third, don't marry - to excess.”
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“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”
More on Pleasure
“If I had a humble spirit in my service who, when I asked for a glass of water, brought me the world's costliest wines blended in a chalice, I should dismiss him, in order to teach him that my pleasure consists, not in what I enjoy, but in having my own way.”
“A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry”
“I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”