The mixture spoils two good things, as Charles Lamb (Elia) used to say of brandy and water.
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Abraham Hayward, writing in the Edinburgh Review in 1848.Charles Lamb
You’re still Brian Duffy. As much as you ever were. But you’re Arthur, too, and that kind of outshines everything else. Brandy and water tastes more like brandy than water, after all.
Tim Powers
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
Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand.
Ramakrishna
Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.George Colman
The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture.
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