"I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. Thus he makes that miserable progress towards that death which he finds ten or fifteen years sooner than he would have found it if he had made his wife brew beer instead of making tea."

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Source : "Cottage Economy". Book by William Cobbett, 1821.

William Cobbett

#Drinking Quotes #Beer Quotes #Views Quotes

“My identity has everything to do with me and my instrument. It doesn't have to do with what production style I use, or how many people played on it, whether it's sparse or grandiose or whatever. And I'm social, frankly”
“I felt it was vital to stress the importance of national security in this debate and the need for a clear path to our exit from the European Union. I hope I have achieved both these objectives.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“For if not true, they are well imagined...”
“It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.”

Source : "Larry King Weekend", www.cnn.com. June 24, 2001.
“I think that ***** should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.”
“Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.”

Source : John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.4
“The search for happiness is unlike any other search, for we search last in the likeliest places.”
“Don't be a half-Christian. There are too many of such in the world. The world has a profound respect for people who are sincere in their faith.”

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