"Wine is an appropriate article for mankind, both for the healthy body and for the ailing man."
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"Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both."
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"Cacao has the highest antioxidant concentration of any major food in the world. Cacao is thirty times higher in antioxidants than red wine, twenty times more potent in antioxidants than blueberries, three times higher than acai, and twice as much as chaga mushrooms. These antioxidants protect our cells from free radical damage and therefore contribute to our longevity and state of well-being."
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"Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably."
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"It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
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"Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know."
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"Life's too short to drink bad wine or smoke poor cigars."
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"The connoisseur does not drink wine but tastes its secrets"
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"Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine."
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"What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams."
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"Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah."
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"Here's to the man Who owns the land That bears the grapes That makes the wine That tastes as good As this does."
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"I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one!"
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"I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself."
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"And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine."
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"Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food."
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"Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison."
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"My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine."
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"Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have."
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"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach."
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