All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
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Sir Francis Bacon
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
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Thomas Jefferson
The smaller the drink the clearer the head.
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William Penn
O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
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William Shakespeare
More Quotes By Sir Francis Bacon
Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.
The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.
A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.
Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.
