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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Sir Winston Churchill, prime minister of the UK, historian and Nobel Prize winner (1874–1965)
APPETITES (#ulink_df5d525d-ea62-5e50-b762-e7d2ab00ac15)
Time for a little something.
Winnie the Pooh (1926)
AA Milne, English writer (1882–1956)
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In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnished dove; In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
Locksley Hall (1842)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, English poet (1809–1892)
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn, Australian-born actor (1909–1959)
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Man and Superman (1903)
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright (1856–1950)
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People say I wasted my money. I say 90 per cent went on women, fast cars and booze. The rest I wasted.
George Best, Northern Irish professional footballer (1946–2005)
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Three glasses of wine drive away the evil spirits, but with the fourth they return.
German proverb
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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.
Five Reasons for Drinking (1689)
Henry Aldrich, English philosopher and composer (1647–1710)
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We drink one another’s healths, and spoil our own.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Jerome K Jerome, English writer (1859–1927)
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No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare.
The Times (1994)
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Kingsley Amis, English writer and critic (1922–1995)
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Wine may well be considered the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.
Еtudes sur le vin (1866)
Louis Pasteur, French biologist and chemist (1822–1895)
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One reason why I don’t drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.
Christian Herald (1960)
Nancy Astor, American-born politician and socialite (1879–1964)
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