Herbert Giles Gems of Chinese Literature
Gems of Chinese Literature, Preface to the first edition (dated 16 October 1883)
“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5
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