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There Is In All Men A Demand For The Superlative, So Much So That The Poor Devil That Has No Other Way Of Reaching It Attains It By Getting Drunk.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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There Is In All Men A Demand
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There Is In All Men A Demand For The Superlative, So Much So That The Poor Devil That Has No Other Way Of Reaching It Attains It By Getting Drunk.
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