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Does it mean anything that three out of the five quotes are from Charles Dickens?<\/p>\n
Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.\u00a0~\u00a0Phineas Redux<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Anthony Trollope<\/a><\/p>\n “Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.”\u00a0~\u00a0The Old Curiosity Shop<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.\u00a0~\u00a0Penrod<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Booth Tarkington<\/a><\/p>\n In particular, there was a butler in a blue coat and bright buttons, who gave quite a winey flavour to the table beer; he poured it out so superbly.\u00a0~\u00a0Dombey and Son<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n “Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one’s glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one’s nose.” \u00a0~\u00a0Great Expectations<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n