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“'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Table Talk. Humility.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6034110ddd36685285fd286461efd266f332f45763ab6d9d82f23e42d73e7134
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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