“The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.”
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist
Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.
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“The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.”
Popular Fallacies: XIII, That You Must Love Me and Love My Dog.
Last Essays of Elia (1833)
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