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Wine Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
- He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
- He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
- Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess…
- One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
- Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
- Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
- Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
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