SAMUEL JOHNSON 1709-84

English writer, poet and essayist

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

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THERE'S A WORD FOR IT - No.43

a wine bottle with a capacity four times larger than an ordinary bottle. = JEROBOAM

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