Victor Hugo Quotes About Wine
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One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
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Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.
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God made the water but men made the wine.
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God made only water, but man made wine.
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At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry
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Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.
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