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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.

Pliny the Elder

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Chance is a second master.
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Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.
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It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs.
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No book so bad but some part may be of use.
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The desire to know a thing is heightened by its gratification being deferred.
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Better do nothing than do ill.
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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
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Envy always implies conscious inferiority wherever it resides.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
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Home is where the heart is.
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Wine refreshes the stomach, sharpens the appetite, blunts care and sadness, and conduces to slumber.
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Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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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 has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth.
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The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.
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The agricultural population produces the bravest men, the most valiant soldiers,46 and a class of citizens the least given of all to evil designs.
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Let not things, because they are common, enjoy for that the less share of our consideration.
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As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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In wine there is health.
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Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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