Hunger is good discipline.
Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests.
Not the why but the what.
Always stop for the day while you still know what will happen next.