The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. - Thomas Love Peacock

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You realize that people take drugs because it's the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world. It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

Thomas Love Peacock

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

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There are two reasons for drinking wine. . . when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. . . prevention is better than cure.

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. . . where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

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The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

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Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

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They have poisoned the Thames and killed the fish in the river. A little further development of the same wisdom and science will complete the poisoning of the air, and kill the dwellers on the banks. I almost think it is the destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

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