Then not only an old man but also a drunkard becomes a second time a child.

If I had not some strength of will I would make a first class drunkard.

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.