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When I sell liquor, they call it bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they call it hospitality. - Alphonse (Al) Capone (nicknamed "Scarface") Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. - Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (act I, sc. 1, song) 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, Gregory's "Life of Hall", vol. I, p. 59 As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice. - Douglas William Jerrold, Jerrold's Wit--Shakespeare Grog Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Boswell's Life of Johnson Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. - George Bernard Shaw 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, Major Barbara Gin was mother's milk to her. - George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
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