“It's a naïve domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.”

— James Thurber

Cartoon caption (1944), in which a dinner host is speaking to his guests about the wine, reproduced in The Thurber Carnival (1945).
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American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894–1961

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