draughts quotes

Headstones stagger under great draughts of time after heads pass out, and their world must reel speechless, blind in the end about its chilling star

-Berryman,John originally John Allyn Smith
  'Homage to Mistress Bradstreet', stanza 55.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.

-Pope, Alexander
An Essay on Criticism, l.215^8.

Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
  Dr Chasuble.The Importance of Being Earnest, act 2.

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