“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”
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Mark Twain637
American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water.”
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“Wine is sunlight, held together by water.”
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer
His description of wine, as quoted in Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (1957) by Stillman Drake, p. 5
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