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If it is true that 'good wine needs no bush', 't is true that a good play needs no epilogue.
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I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.
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A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
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The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
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Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.
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A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
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A reformer is a guy who rides through the sewer in a glass bottom boat.
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A sudden violent jolt of it has been known to stop the victim's watch, snap his suspenders and crack his glass eye right across.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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As the only woman, I was able to sit with the officers in front, with a glass of vodka in one hand and a cucumber in the other. That's how I went to my first war.
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Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly;
a flower that dies when it begins to bud;
a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
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Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
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Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
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Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
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