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Melincourt (1817)
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There are two reasons for drinking: one is, when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it. The first is obvious, mechanical, and plebeian; the second is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical.
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
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If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.
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Born:
October 18, 1785
Died:
January 23, 1866
(aged 80)
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