Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and wat… - Robert Hall

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Call things by their right names... Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

Robert Hall

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Robert Hall (2 May 1764 – 21 February 1831) was an English Baptist minister.

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