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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
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