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Bertrand Russell Quotes: Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
         

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness.


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