"Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on Happiness
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"Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It's because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they're already experiencing."

Robbins, Anthony on Pain
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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Lebowitz, Fran on Critics and Criticism
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on Age and Aging
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"The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity."

Hoffer, Eric on Mediocrity
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"Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar."

Unknown, Source on Life and Living
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"We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine."

Galeano, Eduardo on Temptation
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"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

Immermann on Beauty
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"A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle."

Baudelaire, Charles on Wives
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"If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!"

Sermond, Pete on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

Sandburg, Carl on Past
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on Adversity
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"No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward."

Bose, Amar Gopal on Failure
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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 sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good."

Brock, Alice May on Food and Eating
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"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife."

Goldsmith, Oliver on Taste
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"I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it."

Lee, Robert E. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for."

Proverb, Irish on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes."

Fields, W. C. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

Fields, W. C. on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on Greed
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"Water for oxen, wine for kings."

Proverb, Spanish on Wine
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"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions."

Butterworth, Eric on Attitude
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"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude."

Riley, Pat on Attitude
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"It's your aptitude, not just your attitude that determines your ultimate altitude."

Ziglar, Zig on Achievement
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"Your attitude determines your altitude."

Unknown, Source on Attitude
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"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

Wordsworth, William on Nature
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on Silence
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"The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on Smells
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"To betray you must first belong."

Philby, Harold on Betrayal
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"Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Tolerance
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"When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Success
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"Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness."

Lautreamont, Isidore Ducasse, Comte De on Sorrow
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"Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something."

Unknown, Source on Beginning
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"It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes."

Canetti, Elias on Ideas
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on Courage
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"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Baldwin, James on Education
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"Innovation is the creation of the new or the re-arranging of the old in a new way."

Vance, Michael on Innovation
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"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on Innovation
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"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on Fashion
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