“5749. Wine shews what a Man is.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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Source: Elegies, Line 500.
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tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Wasps+80 <br class="br">Wasps, line 80 <br class="br">Wasps (422 BC)
“When a Man's exhausted, wine will build his strength.”
VI. 261 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
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“All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
April 25, 1778, p. 403
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
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Alain-René Lesage (1668–1747) French writer
La Tontine (1709)