Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn. (John Gibson Lockhart)

Barring drink and the girls, I ne'er heard of a sin – Many worse, better few, than bright, broken Maginn.

John Gibson Lockhart

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