"Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony."
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Quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom‎ (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 129
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Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchley (September 15, 1889 – November 21, 1945) was an American humorist, critic and actor.
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