HOW TO BE A MODERATE DRINKER

someone like me:

  I've spent a good deal of time in life criticizing others -- most of them
badly need the criticism, and I am always happy to give it.
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At least it is free & willingly given. One shouldn't look a gift horse in
the mouth.
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The Duke of Newcastle received praise for his temperance.  "In his diet, he
is so sparing and temperate, that he never eats nor drinks beyond his set
proportion." His set proportion was three glasses of beer and two of wine a
day.

A temperance society founded at Hesse in 1600. Its members agreed to
restrict their drinking to seven glasses of wine with each meal.

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Too much moderation is no good for you.
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got ale?

The heavy drinking of medieval England continued into the early modern
period. The account books for the Percy family of Northumberland reveal that
in 1512 the lord and lady shared a quart of beer and a quart of wine each
day for breakfast. Their two children in the nursery, aged about 8 and 10,
shared a quart of beer at breakfast.
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probably safer than drinking water.