“It was a saying of [Anacharsis] that the vine bore three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the next of intoxication, and the third of disgust.” [1] In my younger days, I could taste much of the first and the second with hardly a hint of the third, but little did I know that the latter is a taste acquired with a maturity that does not always remember the follies of youth kindly. Still, it was much fun. Naturally, the puritan need only taste the first to taste the third.
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[1] Diogenes Laetius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vol.1, tr. R.D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1972), Bk.I:103, p.107.
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[1] Diogenes Laetius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Vol.1, tr. R.D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA & London: Harvard University Press, 1972), Bk.I:103, p.107.
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May I atheistically observe that Jesus seemed pretty sound on wine.
Populations that are slaves to alcohol are: British Isles, American Indian, Russia, France, Germany, Mexico, and the United States. Populations that are free of this addiction are: Italy, Spain, Greece, Israel, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia. Thus, over half of the earth is a slave to drink.
It seems that for each gallon of alcohol that is consumed, two gallons of human tears are shed as a result of the behavior that it engenders.
You may, Dearieme.
"It seems that for each gallon of alcohol that is consumed, two gallons of human tears are shed as a result of the behavior that it engenders."
I've been to weddings like that.
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