It was like a Russian party, Arkady thought. People got drunk, recklessly confessed their love, spilled their festering dislike, had hysterics, marched out, were dragged back in and revived with brandy. It wasn't a French salon.

Martin Cruz Smith

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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Samuel Jackson

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Claret is the liquor for boys, port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Samuel Johnson

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

George Bernard Shaw

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Charity liked brandy. She liked the way it burned her throat while soothing the ache in her heart.

Elizabeth Jane Howard

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...brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels...

("The Wondersmith")

Fitz-James O'Brien

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