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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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Other Quotes from
Wine
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The depth of experience fine wine can bring to a dinner, particularly [a bottle] that has been through the past 100 years, makes you take stock of your own life. – Neil deGrasse Tyson, quoted in The Wine Spectator, 2000 May 31st

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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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Wine

The flavour of wine is like delicate poetry. – Louis Pasteur

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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

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We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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We boast our emancipation from many superstitions; but if we have broken any idols, it is through a transfer of idolatry. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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