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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient read more
All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and. . . you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going read more
I'd hate to be a teetotaller. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Abstinence is easier than temperance
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Once during Prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.
Reborn, Sappho
wears monks' saffron.
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken
kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chicken
kept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., read more
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not
how to return one.
[Lat., Nam improbus est homo qui beneficium scit sumere et
reddere nescit.]
