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“I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.”
― The Vicar of Wakefield
― The Vicar of Wakefield
“...wine [is] a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”
― The posthumous and other writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Volume 1 of 2
― The posthumous and other writings of Benjamin Franklin ... Volume 1 of 2
“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
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“At times we ought to drink even to intoxication, not so as to drown, but merely to dip ourselves in wine, for wine washes away troubles and dislodges them from the depths of the mind and acts as a remedy to sorrow as it does to some diseases. The inventor of wine is called Liber, not from the license which he gives to our tongues but because he liberates the mind from the bondage of cares and emancipates it, animates it and renders it more daring in all that it attempts.”
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“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.”
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