H. L. Mencken Quotes About Drinking
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I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.
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How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
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Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.
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There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
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It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
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The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
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The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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