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Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is nearly spent, but midways be sparing: it is poor saving when you come to the lees.

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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Don't stop until you get enough.

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THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY

There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.

And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.’

"We are all used, all users. With luck, the final tally approximates a balance in our favor. But I think you are one of those who calls the proverbial glass half empty, while I prefer to call it half full."
"No," said Filidor, "in truth, I have never given these matters much thought. I am one who quaffs the glass empty and calls for it to be refilled."

You have to take what you could get when you're getting started.

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

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