"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."
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"Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant."
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"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!"
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"Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle."
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"Language is wine upon the lips."
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"Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern? Have ye tippled drink more fine Than mine host's Canary wine?"
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"Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them."
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"Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
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"...lust is only a sweet poison for the weakling, but for those who will with a lion's heart it is the reverently reserved wine of wines."
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"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."
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"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
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"You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey"
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
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"Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears."
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"Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something."
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"Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine."
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"Don't you hate people who drink white wine? I mean, my dear, every alcoholic in town is getting falling-down drunk on white wine. They think they aren't drunks because they only drink wine. Never, never trust anyone who asks for white wine. It means they're phonies."
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"Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine."
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"It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas)."
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"When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become."
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