To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
—Clifton Fadiman
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- Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
- “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”
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- The best place to drink beer is at home. Or on a river bank, if the fish don’t bother you.
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