“Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.”
“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”
As quoted in The Man from Monticello : An Intimate Life of Thomas Jefferson (1969) by Thomas J. Fleming, p. 250
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“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”
Source: Poems of Fernando Pessoa
“Wine is good, but water is preferable at table.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), I Philosophy
“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
“I rather like bad wine," said Mr. Mountchesney; "one gets so bored with good wine.”
Book 1, chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Sybil (1845)
“Sosias: The love of wine is a good man's failing.”
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Wasps (422 BC)