Before breakfast, before dinner, and just before going to bed...
Today's quotation comes to us from a letter that Mark Twain wrote to his wife, Olivia, in 1874. I'll have to get some lemons and try it out, for old time's sake. Although, I think one "cock-tail" before bed will serve me just fine. What fine constitution folks had in those days, to begin drinking at breakfast!
"I want you to be sure and remember to have in the bath-room, when I arrive, a bottle of Scotch whiskey, a lemon, some crushed sugar, and a bottle of Angostura bitters. Ever since I have been in London I have taken in a wineglass what is called a cock-tail (made with those ingredients), before breakfast, before dinner, and just before going to bed."
~Mark Twain
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