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“Few things surpass old wine and they may preach Who please the more because they preach in vain - Let us have wine and women mirth and laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after.”
“No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.”
“Claret is the liquor for boys port for men but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.”
“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup ... at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”
“Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake.”
