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(2) him of it. Johnson replied: "Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it and I thought it better NOT to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences." - "is not that pretty good AA FOR 1776?" In 1781 (after 15 years wineless!) the good doctor seems to have had a bad slip, for Boswell asked him if it were true that he had lately returned to wine. Johnson replied, "I drink it now sometimes, but not socially." Then Boswell says, "He poured a large quantity of it into a glass, and swallowed it greedily. Everything about his character and manners was forcible and violent; there never was any moderation. Many a year did he drink wine; when he did drink wine, it was copiously. He could practice abstinence, but not Temperance." In his last 2 or 3