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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Gregory's Life of Hall.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c588c8ded1ee03a638d1e660fa8cd3a83b4e21b3a713fbb5fd644614f9b02e89
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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