Quote by Samuel Johnson
Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit;

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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I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company. – Samuel Johnson

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. – Samuel Johnson

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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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Man drinks wine, then wine drinks wine, then wine drinks man. – Japanese proverb

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Drink—wine dissipates sorrow! – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737–1814), “Of the Sentiments of

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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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