There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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