“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”
Aristophanés (-448–-386 BC) Athenian playwright of Old Comedy
“Fill every beaker up, my men, pour forth the cheering wine:
There’s life and strength in every drop,—thanksgiving to the vine!”
The Baron's last Banquet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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