“Beer, tobacco, and music,” he went on. “Behold the Fatherland.”
Thomas Mann book The Magic Mountain
"Herr Settembrini" commenting on Germany, in Ch. 4
The Magic Mountain (1924)
“Next to music, beer was best.”
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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