"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

Vice, Alcohol, Perception, Reality, Illusion

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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."

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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

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"My only aversion to vice, is the price."

Victor Buono, American Actor

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"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

Mary Cheney, American Celebrity

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"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."

Angelica Hopes, Swiss Author

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"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint

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"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

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"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

Juvenal, Roman Poet

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"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

Anne Sexton, American Poet

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"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

Dean Inge, English Author

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"For each man kills the thing he loves yet each man does not diehe does not die a death of shame on a day of dark disgracenor have a noose about his neck, nor a cloth upon his facenor drop feet foremost through the floor into an empty spaceHe does not sit with silent men who watch him night and dayWho watch him when he tries to weep and when he tries to prayWho watch him lest himself should rob the prison of its prey."

Mortality

"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."

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"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."

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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."

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"How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them."

"My only aversion to vice, is the price."

"The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought."

"There is no such thing as senility when it comes to envy, greed laziness, wrath and pride. It's her destructive character from childhood."

"We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot."

"There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."

"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."

"No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."

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"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

"Most people are boring and stupid."

"The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability."

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."

"A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written."

"Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is."

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."