"Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness."
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"When a man drinks wine at dinner, he begins to be better pleased with himself."
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"Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things."
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"The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it."
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"Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow."
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"I rather like bad wine; one gets so bored with good wine."
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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."
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"Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife."
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"So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts."
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"The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
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"What if the Church and the State Are the mob that howls at the door! Wine shall run thick to the end, Bread taste sour."
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"There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,’ he said, ‘to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn’t yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
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"Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow."
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"The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine."
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"Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior."
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"Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others."
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"Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil."
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"The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people."
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"Sweet cherry wine, so very fine, take it on down, pass it all around."
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"A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood... How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!"
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