The Whiskey Taster’s Flavor Guide
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“A man is never happy for the present, but when he is drunk.”     
        - Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson, Happiness and Wine

As happiness now, Johnson thunk,
Requires that a fellow be drunk,
Pursuing the happy,
A literate chappy, 
So happy became that he stunk.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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Wolf Avatar
June 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Different strokes for different folks, as they say.
Prothero Avatar
July 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It does have an element of irony. Johnson himself became a teetotaler, so his strokes changed.
Rodrigues Avatar
June 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Happiness for the selfish him.
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