"Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have."

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If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.

— Samuel Johnson