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Jean Sirmond
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“If on my theme I rightly think, There are five reasons why men drink,— Good wine, a friend, because I'm dry, Or lest I should be by and by, Or any other reason why.”
Jean Sirmond (1589–1649) said by 1649 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Causæ Bibendi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). These lines are a poetic translation of a Latin epigram (erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the Biographia Britannica, second edition, vo…
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