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Quote by Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of

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

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When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. – Clifton Fadiman

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Literature
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Clifton Fadiman
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking. – Clifton Fadiman

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Sleep
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Wine
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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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Wine
[A] hangover is the wrath of grapes. – Youngman 1987

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Wine

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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Wine

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

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Wine

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