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A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

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There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

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The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

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Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

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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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The Mad Hatter: "Would you like some wine?" Alice: "Yes..." The Mad Hatter: "We haven't any and you're too young.

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When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

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I used to drink a bottle of vodka a day, every day, for about 40 years and it never occurred to me it'd kill me. If I'd have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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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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There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

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Betray not a secret even though racked by wine or wrath.

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Who gives to Aristaeus honey; Or wine to Bacchus, or Triptolemus Earth's fruits, or apples to Alcinous?

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I serve your Beaune to my friends, but your Volnay I keep for myself.

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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

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Wine is the divine juice of September.

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Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

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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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Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.

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