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Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.
Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning, I shall be sober.
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When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
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I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
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The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.
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I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.
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