"Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives……" — 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 dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost."
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