“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
“And with glorious triumph, they
Rode through England proud and gay,
Drunk as with intoxication
Of the wine of desolation.”
St. 12
(1819)
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