Plato, they say, could stick it away-- Half a crate of whisky every day.

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There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya 'Bout the raising of the wrist.

And René Descartes was a drunken fart. 'I drink, therefore I am.'

Bird was a living justification.... He is to the Second World War what the dadaist was to the first. He is amoral, anarchistic, gentle, and overcivilized to the point of decadence. He is always ten steps ahead of the game because of his awareness......

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by the by, sir, i don't know how it works in daneland, but in these parts, one cannot pass the Scholastic Aptitude Test when one spells one's name incorrectly.

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