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A quart bottle should hold a quart.
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The title of a bill in the Irish House of Commons. Often misquoted as "a pint bottle should hold a quart."
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Falkiner, C. Litton (1902). "Sir Boyle Roche". Studies in Irish History and Biography, mainly of the Eighteenth Century. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co.. pp. p.230. 

 
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