There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. β¨ In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) p. 110
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