“A quart bottle should hold a quart.”

— Boyle Roche

The title of a bill in the Irish House of Commons. Often misquoted as "a pint bottle should hold a quart."
[Falkiner, C. Litton, Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century, 1902, Longmans, Green, and Co., New York, Sir Boyle Roche, p.230]
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