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 WINE AND SPIRITS WINE AND SPIRITS Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after. Byron—Don 'Juan. Canto II. St. 178. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 875 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted. Ben Jonson. From lines over the door of the "Apollo." Wine to the poet is" a winged steed: Those who drink water come but little speed. From the Greek Anthology. • | seealso = (See also {{sc|Moore)