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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.

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.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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.

Gin was mother's milk to her.