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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

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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 gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. – Samuel Johnson

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Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long. – German Proverb

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A bottle of wine is her autobiography: uncorked at birth, drunk to the last drop — an empty vessel all to show for it. – Terri Guillemets

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