Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it o…

Samuel Johnson
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). The Life of Samuel Johnson, p.220
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Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has repressed. It only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost. ✨ James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). The Life of Samuel Johnson, p.220

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