"When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?"
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"The most precious wine is produced upon the sides of volcanoes. Now bold and inspiring ideals are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart."
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"Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain"
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"Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels."
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"My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out."
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"I drink a glass of wine or two occasionally with dinner. 'You drink alcohol?!' Well, if my state of consciousness is so fragile that a glass of wine would upset it, then it can't be worth very much."
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"Wine fills the heart with courage."
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"To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art."
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"And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine"
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"Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure."
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"So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated."
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"A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses."
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"It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."
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"Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad."
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"We ought to be opening a bottle of wine!"
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"Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature."
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"Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart."
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"Don't mix wine and women."
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"... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose."
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"At Oxford one was positively encouraged to take wine during tutorials. The tongue must be untied."
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