"Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink."
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"I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter"
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"The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star."
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"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
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"To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine."
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"It is permissible to use wine not only for necessity, but also to make us merry...... [it must be moderate] lest men forget themselves, drown their senses,.....in making merry [those who enjoy wine] feel a livelier gratitude to God."
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"When Wine enters, out goes the Truth."
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"Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour."
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"Well, dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess."
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"...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce."
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"You see, baby, after a glass or two of wine I’m inclined to extravagance."
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"Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?"
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"I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid."
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"I shall drink no # wine before it's time! OK, it's time."
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"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
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"Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?"
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"I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen."
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"The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine"
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"Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache."
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"Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength."
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