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"Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used."

- William Shakespeare (1564-1616); Othello, II. iii. (315)

"There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking"

- Benjamin Franklin's "Poor Richard's Almanac"

"For when the wine is in, the wit is out."

- Thomas Becon (1512–1567); Catechism, 375

"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine."

- Ben Jonson (1573–1637), To Celia.

"Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance."

- Benjamin Franklin