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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: doctors term alcoholism. He was imbued with alcohol, and if he
drank any kind of liquor it made him tipsy. Yet strong drink was
an absolute necessity to him, he could not live without it, so he
was quite drunk every evening; but had grown so used to this
state that he did not reel nor talk any special nonsense. And if
he did talk nonsense, it was accepted as words of wisdom because
of the important and high position which he occupied. Only in
the morning, just at the time Nekhludoff came to see him, he was
like a reasonable being, could understand what was said to him,
and fulfil more or less aptly a proverb he was fond of repeating:
"He's tipsy, but he's wise, so he's pleasant in two ways."
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