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When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

— Winston Churchill

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Reply to King George VI, on a cold morning at the airport. The King had asked if Churchill would take something to warm himself. As cited in Man of the Century (2002), Ramsden, Columbia University Press, p. 134 ISBN 0231131062

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