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G.K. Chesterton wrote voluminously in defense of drinking wine and beer (he never touched spirits), yet he drank himself into a long serious illness which nearly cost him his life and after which he was forbidden for some years to take any alcohol at all.

-- Notebooks Category 10: Healing of the Self > Chapter 3 : The Origins of Illness > # 131