"The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves."
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"In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)"
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"Wine is a terrible foe, hard to wrestle with."
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"The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."
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"Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard."
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"Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath."
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"A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow."
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"Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'"
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"Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of."
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."
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"Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness."
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"Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these."
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"Humans! They lived in a world where the grass continued to be green and the sun rose every day and flowers regularly turned into fruit, and what impressed them? Weeping statues. And wine made out of water! A mere quantum-mechanistic tunnel effect, that'd happen anyway if you were prepared to wait zillions of years. As if the turning of sunlight into wine, by means of vines and grapes and time and enzymes, wasn't a thousand times more impressive and happened all the time."
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"I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself."
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"I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend."
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"By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt."
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"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial."
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"And I am all the things I have ever loved: scuppernong wine, cool baptisms in silent water, dream books and number playing."
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"According to DC's HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS... The DC City Council, perhaps on the theory that serving up another glass of wine is the way to help a drunk, is scheduled to vote on December 1 to legalize same sex marriage in America's capital city."
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"I like my wine like my women - ready to pass out."
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