Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, And Stumbled Our Way To Civilization é um livro de não-ficção de Edward Slingerland. Foi publicado por Little, Brown Spark em 2021.
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“Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.”
“It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised.”
“If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity.”
“May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs”
“Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.”
“Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.”
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