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“If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink,-- Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.”
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- Causæ Bibendi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- aa5010aaa0856714516c20b9d081d78cf48ff6cfca5b7c40307c0881ad595255
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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