"If you are invited to drink at any man's house more than you think is wholesome, you may say "you wish you could, but so little makes you both drunk and sick; that you should only be bad company by doing so.""
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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Principles of Politeness and of Knowing the World, Section: Sundry Little Accomplishments.
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