Samuel Johnson Quotes About Wine
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It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb.
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Wine gives great pleasure, and every pleasure is of itself a good. and A man should cultivate his mind so as to have that confidence and readiness without wine, which wine gives.
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Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
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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 in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.
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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to talk; when they have drunk wine, every man feels himself happy, and loses that modesty, and grows impudent and vociferous; but he is not improved; he is only not sensible of his defects.
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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 between dinner and supper.
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He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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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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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
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In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
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Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
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