Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”
topic: Pain, Memories, Vices, Intoxicated, Bad Memories, Getting Sober