The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.
PLINY THE ELDERHuman nature craves novelty.
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Not a day without a line.
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On a farm the best fertilizer is the master’s eye.
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Cats too, with what silent stealthiness, with what light steps do they creep up to a bird!
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It is a maxim universally agreed upon in agriculture, that nothing must be done too late; and again, that everything must be done at its proper season; while there is a third precept which reminds us that opportunities lost can never be regained.
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Now, that the sovereign power and deity, whatsoever it is, should have regard of mankind, is a toy and vanity worthy to be laughed at.
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Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Chance is a second master.
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True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read.
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In wine there is health.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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