“Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.”
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Source: The Last Slice of Rainbow and Other Stories
“Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin –
Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.”
"Here, early to bed, lies kind William Maginn" (1842), line 19; cited from R. Shelton Mackenzie (ed.) The Fraserian Papers of the Late William Maginn (New York: Redfield, 1857) p. cviii.
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