Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
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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.

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

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

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

Gin was mother's milk to her.

Gin was mother's milk to her.

Call things by their right names . . . Glass of brandy and water!
That is the current, but read more

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.

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