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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What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning loves the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning. – Robert Burton

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

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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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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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A drunken man is fitly named: he has drank, till he is drunken: the wine swallows his consciousness, and it sinks therein. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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