Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Wine
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The discovery of a wine is of greater moment than the discovery of a constellation. The universe is too full of stars.
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I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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When Wine enters, out goes the Truth.
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Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
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Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water.
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Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
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Twas Noah who first planted the vine And mended his morals by drinking its wine.
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Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great
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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
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There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
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Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding
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We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.
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The apostle Paul very seriously advised Timothy to put some wine in his water for health's sake, but not one of the apostles nor any of the holy fathers have ever recommended putting water in wine
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Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and revealed to him the art of making le vin. By the aid of this liquid he unveiled more and more truth.
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Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States
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