Wine makes a man better pleased with himself

The first glass is for myself
The second for my friends
The third for good humor
And the forth for my enemies
Sir William Temple
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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
Samuel Johnson
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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself
I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others
This is one of the disadvantages of wine
It makes a man mistake words for thoughts
Samuel Johnson
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Thanks be to God
Since my leaving the drinking of wine
I do find myself much better
And do mind my business better
And do spend less money
And less time lost in idle company
Samuel Pepys
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It provokes the desire
But it takes away the performance
Therefore much drink
May be said to be an equivocator with lechery
It makes him and it mars him
It sets him on and it takes him off
William Shakespeare
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If all be true that I do think
There are five reasons we should drink
Good wine
A friend
Or being dry
Or lest we should be by and by
Or any other reason why
Henry Aldrich
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Alcohol is necessary for a man
So that he can have a good opinion of himself
Undisturbed be the facts
Finley Peter Dunne
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Other countries drink to get drunk
And this is accepted by everyone
In France, drunkenness is a consequence
Never an intention
A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure
Not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sough
Wine is not only a philter
It is also the leisurely act of drinking
Roland Barthes
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It is immoral to get drunk
Because the headache comes after the drinking
But if the headache came first and the drunkenness afterwards
It would be moral to get drunk
Samuel Butler
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Alcohol doesn’t console
It doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps
All it replaces is the lack of God
It doesn’t comfort man
On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly
It transports him to the supreme regions
Where he is master of his own destiny
Marguerite Duras

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