"No nation is drunken where wine is cheap."
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"I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them."
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"Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility."
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"There is some delight in ale and wine And some in girls with ankles fine But my delight, yes always mine Is to dance with Jak O’ the Shadows We will toss the dice however they fall And snuggle the girls be they short or tall Then follow Lord Mat whenever he calls To dance with Jak O’ the Shadows."
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"You've gotten drunk on so many kinds of wine. Taste this. It won't make you wild. It's fire. Give up, if you don't understand by this time that your living is firewood."
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"I drink sherry and wine by myself because I like it and I get the sensuous feeling of indulgence...luxury, bliss, erotic-tinged."
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"There's wisdom in wine."
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
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"The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water."
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"Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines"
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"What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?"
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"Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams."
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"When the wine goes in, strange things come out."
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"Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery."
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"My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water."
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"I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite."
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"As you get older, you shouldn't waste time drinking bad wine."
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"Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour."
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"Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile"
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"Over the wine-dark sea."
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