A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway

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A bottle of wine was good company.

Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises · 1926

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Wine Alcohol Getting drunk Good company

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1926

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Ernest Hemingway

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Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926, bk. 3, ch. 19.

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