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• Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

  Margaret Fuller

  Answers, Earth, Sun

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• I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Pills, Dessert, Accustomed

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

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• The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.

  Alfred de Musset

  Brother, Speak, Moments

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “The confession of a child of the century tr. by Kendall Warren”

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• You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

  Len Evans

  Bottles, Drink, Bottles Of Wine

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• The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Men, Sight, Doors

  Jerome K. Jerome (1998). “Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel”, p.159, OUP Oxford

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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.

  Victor Hugo

  Sheep, Degrees, Lions

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.439, Modern Library

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• Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

  Euripides

  Sorrow, Rich, Poor

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• There are many wines that taste great, but do not drink well

  Michael Broadbent

  Taste, Drink, Wells

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• When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.46, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good blood, but it nutrifieth also, being a glutinous substantial liquor; of this wine, if of any other, may be verified that merry induction: That good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a man to heaven, ergo, good wine carrieth a man to heaven.

  James Howell

  Men, Blood, Heaven

  James Howell (1726). “Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ: Familiar Letters Domestick and Foreign, Divided Into Four Books; Partly Historical, Political, Philosophical. Upon Emergent Occasions”, p.366

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• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.

  Joseph Lyons

  Heart, Eye, Hands

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• A full cup of wine at the right time is worth more than all the kingdoms of this earth!

  Gustav Mahler

  Earth, Kingdoms, Cups

  Gustav Mahler (1897). “Three Song Cycles in Vocal Score: Songs of a Wayfarer, Kindertotenlieder and Das Lied Von Der Erde”, p.11, Courier Corporation

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• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine connoisseur invited the composer to dinner. 'This is the Brahms of my cellar,' he said to his guests, producing a dust-covered bottle and pouring some into the master's glass. Brahms looked first at the color of the wine, then sniffed its bouquet, finally took a sip, and put the glass down without saying a word. 'Don't you like it?' asked the host. 'Hmm,' Brahms muttered. 'Better bring your Beethoven!'

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Glasses, Dust, Color

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• Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.

  A. J. Liebling

  Insulting, Bottles, Lasts

  A. J. Liebling (2016). “Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris”, p.6, North Point Press

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Next, Best Gift

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.238, University of Georgia Press

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• Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Giving, Mind

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Richard III”, p.124, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply 'In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and Champagne.'

  Isadora Duncan

  Mother, Oysters, Agony

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.1, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

  Kathy Mattea

  Glasses, Gourmet, Meals

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• I enjoy cooking with wine, sometimes I even put it in the food I'm cooking.

  Julia Child

  Cooking, Funny Alcohol, Sometimes

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• Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for cheese, and one for chocolate.

  Gina Barreca

  Chocolate, Cheesy, Taste

  Gina Barreca (2009). “It's Not That I'm Bitter . . .: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World”, p.13, Macmillan

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• If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

  Cardinal Richelieu

  Drinking, Made, Vino

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• We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

  Carl Jung

  Hurt, Science, Years

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• Sparkling and bright in liquid light Does the wine our goblets gleam in; With hue as red as the rosy bed Which a bee would choose to dream in.

  Charles Fenno Hoffman

  Dream, Light, Bed

  Charles Fenno Hoffman (1873). “The Poems of Charles Fenno Hoffman”, p.195

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• What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

  James Joyce

  The End Of The Day, Drink, Ends

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• Go, little book, and wish to all
  Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
  A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
  A house with lawns enclosing it,
  A living river by the door,
  A nightingale in the sycamore!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Book, Garden

  'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

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