“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”

—  Ernest Hemingway, book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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