Talk:Intemperance

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 * It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.
 * Atterbury


 * Wise men mingle mirth with their cares, as a help either to forget or overcome them; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind is to cure melancholy by madness.
 * Charron


 * Intemperance weaves the winding-sheet of souls.
 * John Bartholomew Gough


 * The habit of using ardent spirits, by men in office, has occasioned more injury to the public, and more trouble to me, than all other causes. And were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask, respecting a candidate for office would be, "Does he use ardent spirits?"
 * Thomas Jefferson


 * Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty.
 * Junius


 * Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.
 * Walter Scott


 * Drunkenness calls off the watchman from the towers; and then all the evils that proceed from a loose heart, an untied tongue, and a dissolute spirit, we put upon its account.
 * Jeremy Taylor