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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.

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Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.

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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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The drunkard is convicted by his praises of wine.

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None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

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The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

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

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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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The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

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

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His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

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The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.

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Fill high the cup with Samian wine!

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The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

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Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

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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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