Who says the following and why? There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy.

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Frances Frazier

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20 January, 23:13

Who says the following and why? There's lots of women has to make their husbands drunk to make them fit to live with. You see, it's like this. If a man has a bit of a conscience, it always takes him when he's sober; and then it makes him low-spirited. A drop of booze just takes that off and makes him happy.

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Lauren Bridges · Answer 1

This is a phrase by Bernard Shaw, Act 3 of Pygmalion. He is describing how ill-natured sober men can be, and how their wives make them drunk in order to make them happy and to "make them fit to live with."