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Wine is the source of the greatest evils among communities. It causes diseases, quarrels, seditions, idleness, aversion to labor, and family disorders. . . . It is a species of poison that causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him into a brute. Men may preserve their health and vigor without wine; with wine they run the risk of ruining their health and losing their morals.
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Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet’s horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
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Wine kindles wrath. [Lat., Vinum incendit iram.]
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Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.
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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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Wine makes a poor man rich in imagination, a rich man poor in reality.
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Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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Wine often turns the good-natured man into an idiot and the choleric into an assassin.
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Wine stimulates the mind and makes it quick with heat; care flees and is dissolved in much drink.
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Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations.
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Wine tells nothing, it only tattles. [Ger., Der Wein erfindet nichts, er schwatzt’s nur aus.]
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Wine, though it possesses good qualities, was forbidden by the prophet, because it attacked reason.
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Wine-drinking is the mother of all mischief, the root of crimes, the spring of vices, the whirlwind of the brain, the overthrow of the sense, the tempest of the tongue, the ruin of the body, the shame of life, the stain of honesty, and the plague and corruption of the soul.
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Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: Which justify the wicked for reward, and take the righteousness of the righteous from him!
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You cannot know wine by the barrell. [You cannot know the wine by the barrel.]
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You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.
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You often hear the remark that ‘there is no harm in a glass of wine per se.’ Per se means by itself. Certainly there is no harm in a glass of wine by itself. Place a glass of wine on a shelf and let it remain there, and it is per se, and will harm no one. But if you take it from the shelf and turn it inside a man, then it is no longer per se.
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