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Drinks & Drinking

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What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Isak Dinesen

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So was hir joly whistle wel ywet.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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A hair of the dog that bit us.

John Heywood

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Something can (has) been said for sobriety but very little.

John Berryman

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Now is the time for drinking, now the time to beat the earth with unfettered foot.

Horace

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Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington

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