“A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.”
Source: Charles Dickens (1906), Ch. 8 "The Time of Transition"
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G. K. Chesterton229
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) American author, poet, editor and literary critic
Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
“It is a more rational belief that man may become a brute than that a brute may become a man;”
David Brewster (1781–1868) British astronomer and mathematician
The facts and fancies of Mr. Darwin (1862)
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“Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XCIII.9
Tirukkural
“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright