Quote#Wisdom
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting…
Quote byWilliam Henry Maule · 1788–1858
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reg. v. Burton (1854), Dearsly's C. C. 284..
English (original)
If a man go into the London Docks sober without means of getting drunk, and comes out of one of the cellars very drunk wherein are a million gallons of wine, I think that would be reasonable evidence that he had stolen some of the wine in that cellar, though you could not prove that any wine was stolen, or any wine was missed.
— William Henry Maule
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