When Clemens / Twain was in Washington City (winter 1867 - 1868) he
reportedly hit the John Barleycorn with fellow Washington Letter writers.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 2:27 PM Kenneth Sanderson <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> A number of sites attribute this quotation to Mark Twain, but none of them
> give a source.  Can anyone verify that this is by MT? "Too much of anything
> is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."  It is probably not a
> coincidence that it pops up on sites of whiskey distillers.
>
> Ken Sanderson
>


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