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“Wine is a peep-hole on a man.”
-- Alcaeus

#Wine #Men #Holes
“The Arcadians were chestnut-eaters.”
-- Alcaeus

#Chestnuts #Arcadia
“To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.”
-- Alcaeus

#Pain #Drinking #Grief
“Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.”
-- Alcaeus

#Wall #Opportunity #Men
“One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.”
-- Alcaeus

#Wine #Chains #Wit
“Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.”
-- Alcaeus

#Men #Wrath #Lasts
“Plant no tree sooner than the vine.”
-- Alcaeus

#Tree #Vines #Plant
“Fighting men are the city's fortress”
-- Alcaeus

#Fighting #Men #Cities
“Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.”
-- Alcaeus

#Men #Cities #Brave

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