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Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

~John Stuart Blackie

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Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

~John Stuart Blackie

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Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the task when reaping sweet labour's prize.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: July 28th, 1809

Died: March 2nd, 1895

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