The National Tobacco Museum
4 centuries of fascinating tobacco history in words and pictures
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Wervik: more than just tobacco
I believe that pipe smoking contributes
somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man
as a good cry is to a woman.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
Le cigare engourdit le chagrin et remplit
les heures solitaires d'un million de choses agréables.
GEORGE SAND
La vie n'est plus qu'un cigare:
een beetje vuur, veel rook.
ARSÈNE HOUSSAYE
The most futile and disastrous day seems well spent
when it is reviewed through the blue, fragrant smoke of a Havana Cigar.
EVELYN WAUGH
Het leven is een soep met vier troostende mergpijpen erin:
drank, liefde, kunst en tabak
FELIX TIMMERMANS
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper
with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Qui vit sans tabac
n'est pas digne de vivre.
MOLIÈRE
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