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Never dine with another man’s wife, nor revel with her at wine; lest your heart turn aside to her, and in blood you be plunged into destruction.
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Choice of Friends
Forsake not an old friend, for a new one does not compare with him. A new friend is like new wine; when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
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Wine and women lead intelligent men astray, and the man who consorts with harlots is very reckless.
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Temperance in Drinking Wine
Do not aim to be valiant over wine, for wine has destroyed many.
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Fire and water prove the temper of steel, so wine tests hearts in the strife of the proud.
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Wine is like life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad.
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Wine drunk in season and temperately is rejoicing of heart and gladness of soul.
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Wine drunk to excess is bitterness of soul, with provocation and stumbling.
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Do not reprove your neighbor at a banquet of wine, and do not despise him in his merrymaking; speak no word of reproach to him, and do not afflict him by making demands of him.
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A ruby seal in a setting of gold is a concert of music at a banquet of wine.
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A seal of emerald in a rich setting of gold is the melody of music with good wine.
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I was the last on watch; I was like one who gleans after the grape-gatherers; by the blessing of the Lord I excelled, and like a grape-gatherer I filled my wine press.
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Wine and music gladden the heart, but the love of wisdom is better than both.
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Josiah and Other Worthies
The memory of Josi′ah is like a blending of incense prepared by the art of the perfumer; it is sweet as honey to every mouth, and like music at a banquet of wine.
