"Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death."
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"Beer is made by men, wine by God."
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"Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine."
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"There is truth in wine and children"
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"Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man."
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"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
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"Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber."
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"This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar."
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"Memories, pressed between the pages of my mind. Memories, sweetened through the ages just like wine."
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"What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others."
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"Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine."
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"Wine buffs write and talk as though the food and wine will be in your mouth at the same time, that one is there to be poured over the other. This is bullshit. Gustatory enjoyment comes from food and wine and cigars of your liking. So far no one has said that a Monte Cristo is the only cigar to smoke after Armagnac, Romeo and Juliet after Calvados ... but the time may yet come."
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"And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance."
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"Sherry, the civilized drink."
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"Good wine needs no bush."
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"I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me."
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"As long as civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter, and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits which we can taste with all doors open, and which serves all men."
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"A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine."
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"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine."
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"Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone"
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