Drunkeness is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. (Bertrand Russell)

Drunkeness is temporary suicide the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

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