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He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn’t see any sense in mixing whiskey with water, since the whiskey was already wet.

— Joseph Mitchell Old Mr. Flood (1948)

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"Mr. Flood's Party", in The New Yorker (August 4, 1945), p. 22, col. 2

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