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Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whisky makes it go round twice as fast.

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Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen.

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You are offered a piece of bread and butter that feels like a damp handkerchief and sometimes, when cucumber is added to it, like a wet one.

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Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

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Compton Mackenzie

Compton Mackenzie
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Born: January 17, 1883
Died: November 30, 1972 (aged 89)
Bio: Sir Compton Mackenzie was a Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist.
Known for:
  1. Whisky Galore (1947)
  2. The Monarch of the Glen (1941)
  3. Sinister Street (1913)
  4. The Highland Omnibus
  5. Vestal Fire (1927)

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