You deliberately acquired a taste for intoxicants; you haven't one excuse, one mitigating plea to offer for what you've done to yourself.
"You stood high in school and in college; you were Phi Beta Kappa, a convincing debater, a plausible speaker, an excellent writer of good English--by instinct a good newspaper man.

Also you were a man adapted by nature to live regularly and beyond the coarser temptations.

But you were lazy!" Dr.Bailey struck his desk in emphasis.
"The germ of your self-indulgence lay in gross selfishness.

You did what pleased you; and it suited you to do nothing.

I'm telling you how you've betrayed yourself--how far you'll have to climb to win back.