Ocupation: Writer
Life: February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870
Birthday: February 7
Death: June 9
... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.
source: Charles Dickens (1861). “Great Expectations”, p.65
topic: Funny, Humorous, Wine, Rims, Great Expectations Important