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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

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This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.

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No poem was ever written by a drinker of water.

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Good wine needs no bush.

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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

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Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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Away with you, water, destruction of wine!

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Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it.

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Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the gods, and their descent unto men, must drink water out of a wooden bowl. For poetry is not "Devil's wine," but God's wine.

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A man making the confession of any creed worth ten minutes' intelligent talk, is always a man who gains something and gives up something. So long as he does both he can create: for he is making an outline and a shape.

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Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.

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Shall we not, then, lay down a law, in the first place, that boys shall abstain altogether from wine till their eighteenth year, thereby teaching that it is wrong to add fire to fire, as through a funnel, pouring it into their body and soul before they proceed to the labor of life, thus exercising a caution as to the maddening habits of youth.

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Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

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Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

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

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