“[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32

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British literary critic 1845–1933

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“Be ruled by time, the wisest counsellor of all.”

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“Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.”

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“Freezing concentrates sugar (maple sugar), alcohol, and salt solutions as efficiently as heating distils water or alcohol from solutions. Open pans of maple sugar can have the surface ice removed regularly (each day) until a sugar concentrate remains. Salts in water, and alcohol in ferment liquors can be concentrated in the same way.”

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“The wisest time of all times is now. Now you are enlightened. Just now.”

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“Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.”

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“As all those have shown who have discussed civil institutions, and as every history is full of examples, it is necessary to whoever arranges to found a Republic and establish laws in it, to presuppose that all men are bad and that they will use their malignity of mind every time they have the opportunity; and if such malignity is hidden for a time, it proceeds from the unknown reason that would not be known because the experience of the contrary had not been seen, but time, which is said to be the father of every truth, will cause it to be discovered.”

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“Remove from the history of the past all those actions which have either sprung directly from the religious nature of man, or been modified by it, and you have the history of another world and of another race.”

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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 498.

“[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”

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