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This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
—Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer and literary critic, quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1783

Posted on May 28, 2001 at 5:02 PM

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