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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – 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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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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When wine sinks, words swim. – English proverb

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

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

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