"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."
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"I have always maintained that there is nothing wrong with nursery food now that we are grown up and can have a glass of wine with it."
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"I tasted - careless - then - I did not know the Wine Came once a World - Did you? Oh, had you told me so - This Thirst would blister - easier - now"
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"Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing."
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"We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight."
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"The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice."
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"Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding"
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"I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!"
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"Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water."
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"And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury."
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"I like best the wine drunk at the cost of others."
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"I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together."
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"My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure."
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"Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life."
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"There was a little plate of hothouse nectarines on the table, and there was another of grapes, and another of sponge-cakes, and there was a bottle of light wine ... 'This is my frugal breakfast ... Give me my peach, my cup of coffee, and my claret.'"
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""It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon.""
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"There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand."
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"There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine."
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"I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies."
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"my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II."
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