"Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice."

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Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

— John Dryden