Charles Darwin
(1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.”
Mynheer Vandunck, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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“As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.”
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Shakespeare Grog, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The Drawing of the Dark (1979), Chapter 13 (p. 178)
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Gregory's Life of Hall, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin", Diogenes Laërtius, Pythagoras, vi. "A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em", Cyril Tourneur, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Act iii, Scene 1.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 227.
