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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes Source: She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 1, song)
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“Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a
glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.”
Robert Hall Quotes Source: Gregory's "Life of Hall", vol. I, p. 59
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“As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought
in in malice.”
Douglas Jerrold Quotes Source: Jerrold's Wit--Shakespeare Grog
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“Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires
to be a hero must drink brandy.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of
life.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Boswell's Life of Johnson
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“Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables
Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person
would do at eleven in the morning.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“Gin was mother's milk to her.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes Source: Pygmalion
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Liquor Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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