I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy.…

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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author, p.373
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite. ✨ Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author, p.373

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