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I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of

I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which have infatuated and besotted myriads of people. They go commonly together. – Robert Burton

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Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion. – Robert Burton

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Faith
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Robert Burton
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Drink—wine dissipates sorrow! – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), “Of the Sentiments of

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There are spunky little angels at the top of a bottle of wine and fearless little devils at the bottom. – Terri Guillemets

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Wine

For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting a large section of the public and depriving them of one of the greatest pleasures known to man. – Craig Claiborne, New York Times Cookbook

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Wine

A good wine is like a gentle kiss, its effect throughout the meal is scintillatingly sensual in an elegantly understated way. – Frances Tabeek

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Wine

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If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. – Lord Chesterfield

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Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. – Peter Guber

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Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that — the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart. – Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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