“Most public characters have their failing; and the truth is that Mr. Snevellicci was a little bit addicted to drinking; or, if the whole truth must be told, that he was scarcely ever sober. He knew in his cups three distinct stages of intoxication-the dignified-the quarrelsome-the amorous. When professionally engaged he never got beyond the dignified; in private circles he went through all three, passing from one to the another with a rapidity of transition often rather perplexing to those who had not the honour of his acquaintance.”
Charles Dickens “Nicholas Nickleby”, 1837
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