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«RUM, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.»
«The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.»
«The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.»
«If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.»
«It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.»
«There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Doubt, Spirit | Keywords: calms, naught, rum
«If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson (Author, Essayist, Poet) | About: Alcohol | Keywords: rum, scoundrel
«I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | Keywords: mum, rum
«Don't talk to me about Naval tradition! It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash»