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Whiskey is awesome, so we made some high-quality gifs of it. We seriously had no other reason for doing this. It just seemed like something that needed to be done.

“Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a dog to eat the rare steak.” — Johnny Carson

“Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.” — W.C. Fields

“There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.” — William Faulkner

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough.” — Mark Twain

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