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Ten Literary Lines To Raise Your Glass To

Many great writers have also been great drinkers and their advice around this habit will either want to make you keep going or will stop you forever. But do try not to spit out your scotch laughing at the wit.
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Many great writers have also been great drinkers and their advice around this habit will either want to make you keep going or will stop you forever. But do try not to spit out your scotch laughing at the wit. If you have more to contribute, let us know in the comments section below.

Ten Literary Lines to Raise Your Glass to
Ernest Hemingway(01 of10)
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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools."Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lord Byron(02 of10)
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"What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!"Lord Byron, The Deformed Transformed
Graham Greene(03 of10)
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"I don't drink at this hour.""It was the English who made hours for drinking, not the Scotch. They'll be making hours for dying next."Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana
Samuel Johnson(04 of10)
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"No sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place, brandy is most grateful to the palate; and then brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him. There are, indeed, few who are able to drink brandy. That is a power rather to be wished for than attained."Samuel Johnson in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson.
Flann O'Brien(05 of10)
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"When things go wrong and will not come right,Though you do the best you can,When life looks black as the hour of night -A pint of plain is your only man."Flann O'Brien, "The Workmans Friend"
Kingsley Amis(06 of10)
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"He felt slightly ill in an indefinable way, but swallowed half his new glassful at one go; it slid warmly down to join the previous three sherries and the half-dozen measures of Bill Atkinson's whisky. In a sense, but only in a sense, he was beginning not to worry about the lecture, which was to start in twenty minutes' time, at six-thirty."Kingsley Amis, in Lucky Jim describing Jim Dixon's cure for fear of public speaking.
Charles Dickens(07 of10)
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"At last, when the punch was all gone, and the night nearly so, they sallied forth to see each other home. Mr. Tuckle no sooner got into the open air, then he was seized with a sudden desire to lie on the curb-stone; Sam thought it would be a pity to contradict him, and so let him have his own way."Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
Mark Twain(08 of10)
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"Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him. Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi
Alexander Pope(09 of10)
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"There St. John mingles with my friendly bowlThe feast of reason and the flow of soul."Alexander Pope, Second Book of Horace
John Milton(10 of10)
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"One sip of thisWill bathe the drooping spirits in delight,Beyond the bliss of dreams."John Milton, Comus

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