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Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

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Mr. Tulkinghorn, sitting in the twilight by the open window, enjoys his wine. As if it whispered to him of its fifty years of silence and seclusion, it shuts him up the closer. More impenetrable than ever, he sits, and drinks, and mellows as it were in secrecy, pondering at that twilight hour on all the mysteries he knows.

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How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his.

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You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one.

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A new friend is new wine, when it grows old, you will enjoy drinking it.

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Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

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

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The effervescence of this fresh wine reveals the true brilliance of the French people.

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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?

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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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One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

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An old wine-bibber having been smashed in a railway collision, some wine was poured on his lips to revive him.

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Jars neither of wine nor of water shall fail in the houses of the rich.

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Although wine when it is read somewhat lacks the savour of wine when it is drunk, wine remains a very pleasant thing both to read about and to chat about.

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No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world.

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Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

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Is there a chance? A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel? A reason to fight? Is there a chance you may change your mind? Or are we ashes and wine?

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Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

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APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

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God made only water, but man made wine.

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