“There's enough chocolate in there to fill every bathtub in the entire country! And all the swimming pools as well!”

— Roald Dahl , book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Ch. 15, "The Chocolate Room"

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British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot a… 1916–1990

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