Edmund Burke: “Let me add, what wits inspired with champagne and claret will turn…”

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Let me add, what wits inspired with champagne and claret will turn into ridicule,--it is a medicine for the mind.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke claims that wine and other spirits can serve as a mental medicine, despite being ridiculed.

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Edmund Burke: “Let me add, what wits inspired with champagne and claret will turn into ridicule,--it is a medicine for the mind.”