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“Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why?”
Provenance
- Source:
- From Anacreon, ii. Drinking.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4740aa64d39998eee7123783dc9fb62bd1e6de7de7002e324a1307c35b1c03ad
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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