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If I had a thousand sons, the first humane principle I would teach them would be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack.
Si yo tuviera mil hijos, el primer principio humano que les enseñaría sería el de abjurar de las bebidas flojas y entregarse al jerez.
Late nights, unaccustomed potations, and worry, were taking their toll.
Pocas horas de sueño, la bebida y las preocupaciones le estaban pasando factura.
The couples and the throng of guests reclined on shaded grass and partook of a picnic feast, this time with dishes and potations selected for their alleged aphrodisiac effect.
Las parejas y la multitud de huéspedes se reclinaron en la fresca hierba y compartieron un festín al aire libre, esta vez con platos y bebidas seleccionados por su supuesto efecto afrodisíaco.
And turning his back on the little Gascon, who, always sober in his potations, was as though born intoxicated with the sunshine of his vine-ripening country, the Northman, who could drink hard on occasion, but was born sober under the watery skies of Picardy, made for the door.
Y volviendo la espalda al pequeño gascón que, siempre sobrio en la bebida, parecía haber nacido ebrio por el sol de su tierra de viñas, el nórdico, que en algunas ocasiones era buen bebedor, pero poseía el temperamento sereno que abunda bajo los lluviosos cielos de Picardía, se dirigió hacia la puerta.
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