And a nip of brandy now and then …
HOFFMANN
Ah, well, if one couldn't get that much out of life! You'll never succeed in making an ascetic of me. You can't rob life of every stimulus.
LOTH
I'm not so sure of that. I am thoroughly content with the normal stimuli that reach my nervous system.
HOFFMANN
And a company that sit together with dry throats always has been and always will be a damnably weary and boresome one—with which, as a rule, I'd care to have very little to do.
MRS. KRAUSE
An' all them aristocrats drinks a whole lot.