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11 quotesAffliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
Adversity
Henry Ward Beecher
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When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Sir Richard Burton
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My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober.
Patriotism
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Fanaticism soberly defined, is the false fire of an over heated mind.
Fanatics and Fanaticism
William Cowper
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People creep into childhood, bound into youth, sober in adulthood, and soften into old age.
Life and Living
Henry Giles
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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Ernest Hemingway
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It is a sobering thought, that when Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
Age and Aging
Tom Lehrer
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Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
Modesty
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Critics and Criticism
Alexander Pope
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
Libraries
Source Unknown
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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
William Butler Yeats
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun