Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merel…

Bertrand Russell
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2015). The Conquest of Happiness, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2015). The Conquest of Happiness, p.11, Lulu Press, Inc

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