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Fire tests metal, wine tests men. - Japanese proverb

Fire tests metal, wine tests men. – Japanese proverb

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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. – Japanese Proverb

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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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A vine bears three bunches of grapes. The first, the bunch of pleasure; the second, that of drunkenness; the third, that of disgust. – Anacharsis (early 6th century BCE), paraphrase by Diogenes Laërtius (3rd C. CE)

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A cup of wine is medicine, a gallon of wine is ruin. – Korean proverb

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Water for oxen, wine for kings. – Proverb

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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear. – Dan Millman

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Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average. – Garrison Keillor

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If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are. – John W. Gardner

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Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. – Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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