... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessing the far worse effect of drink on an empty mind.

Roger Scruton
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  1. I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. - William Shakespeare

  2. Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. - W.b. Yeats

  3. Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. - Paulo Coelho

  4. I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. - W.C. Fields

  5. I am not sure I trust you."" You can trust me with your life, My King.""But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back. - Megan Whalen Turner

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  2. Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense is part of the huge fund of unreason on which the plans and schemes of optimists draw for their vitality. Nonsense confiscates meaning. It thereby puts truth...

  3. The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the enemy within. The heathen, by contrast, is safely behind the walls, excluded by his own invincible arrogance.

  4. The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the liberty and equality advocated at the French Revolution. If liberation involves the liberation of individual potential, how do we stop the ambitious, the energetic, the intelligent, the good-looking...

  5. Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or perceptual experience, are modes of exploration of the world. Aesthetic pleasures are like this. Aesthetic pleasures are contemplative - they involve studying an object OUTSIDE of the self,...

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