Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Pierre or the Ambiguities
“5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Context: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
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