| Evidence has been brought forward which
proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark
places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. - Letter to San Francisco Alta California, 28 July 1867 |
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| What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic
is to sobriety. - Mark Twain's Notebook, 1895 I know better than to get tight oftener than once in 3 months. It sets a man back in the esteem of people whose opinions are worth having. - Letter to Will Bowen, 25 August 1866 The man is probably dead drunk but that doesn't lessen your heart ache. - quoted in Isabel Lyon's Journal, 15 January 1906 Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink-- under any circumstances. - Mark Twain's Notebook Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink. - Notebook #42, 1898 I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side. - quoted in Abroad with Mark Twain and Eugene Field, Henry Fisher (1922) |
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