sobriety quotes

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

-James,William
  The Varieties of Religious Experience,'Mysticism'.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

-Twain, Mark pseudonym of  Samuel Langhorne Clemens
  Quotedin AlbertBigelow Paine (ed) MarkTwain's Notebook (1935), ch.23.

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