another phrase

[Sarah Hurst]

Thanks everyone who pointed out that this phrase is in "Anna Karenina". Here's the translation by Constance Garnett: 

That had happened to him in this matter which is said to happen to drunkards--the first glass sticks in the throat, the second flies down like a hawk, but after the third they're like tiny little birds.

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