Quote by Robert Burton
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

Other quotes by Robert Burton

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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To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. – Robert Burton

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Other Quotes from
Wine
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Do you remember any great poet that ever illustrated the higher fields of humanity that did not dignify the use of wine from Homer on down? – James A. McDougall

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Wine

To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. – Clifton Fadiman

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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

Wine is a turn-coat, first a friend, then an enemy. – French proverb

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Wine

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