I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was p…

Ernest Hemingway
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1926). The Sun Also Rises, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company. ✨ Ernest Hemingway (1926). The Sun Also Rises, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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