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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 reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – 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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Wine
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A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. “Much obliged,” said he, pushing the plate aside; “I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.” – Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, A Handbook of Gastronomy (Physiologie du goût), 1825,

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Bacchus scatters devouring cares. – Horace

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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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Wine

Life is a chaplet of little miseries, which the philosopher unstrings with a smile. Be philosophers as I am, gentlemen; sit down to the table and let us drink; nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin. – Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers (1844), “Chapter XLVII: A Family Affair,”

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My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing but despite them I see that theres a consistency that holds out, but is hard to define. – Lee Krasner

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Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. – Mark Haddon

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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. – Albert Einstein

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Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything. – Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone Scelto

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