Mark Twain Quotes About Whiskey
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It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.
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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
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It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
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Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
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I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.
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Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.
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The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
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