What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place…

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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent? ✨ Plato (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated), p.2694, Delphi Classics
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What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent? ✨ Plato (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Plato (Illustrated), p.2694, Delphi Classics

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