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drunkenness

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The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; -- used of the casual state or the habit.

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is not wine that is evil, but drunkenness. John Chrysostom

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. Seneca

Drunkenness is temporary suicide. Bertrand Russell

There's no harm in wine, it's drunkenness that is at fault. Russian Proverb

Drunkenness does not produce faults; it discovers them. Chinese Proverb

There is no coat big enough to hide both poverty and drunkenness. Hungarian Proverb

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