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WILL
WILLS --- WINE
WINNIE THE POOH --- WINNING

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WILL

see "SUCCESS" for related links


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I think of a family who started a farm on rocky soil in
Kentucky: a dim, shiftless, rolling stone of a husband married
to an illegitimate girl from the Virginia mountains. He tried five
or six farms and kept moving on, a man afflicted, we'd say
today, with a character neurosis who thought that by picking
a new place, like a movie actress who keeps picking a new
husband, he would somehow change the plot. He didn't,
of course.

They plodded into Indiana and did a little better. In time,
they had a barn and a few animals, a little corral, a rail
fence, and they planted corn and flax and beans. But then
the neighbors went down with "the milk sickness," picked up
from cows that chewed on snakeroot. Our farmer's wife died.
So the vagabond father and his dour son moved on to a new
state and new ground. the son passing from an almost animal
boyhood into a bleak manhood. Yet, out of that frail women
and her listless husband and the poorest ground, there came
something strange and wholly admirable: the slow-moving
son who seized the Republic and held it through its first
cataclysm — Abraham Lincoln.

--Alistair Cooke [Alfred Cooke] (1908—2004)
British-born American broadcater and journalist.
_America_ [1973]

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Strength does not come from physical capacity.
It comes from an indomitable will.
--Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869—1948)
Indian statesman and leader of the nationalistic
movement against British rule.

People do not lack strength, they lack will.
--Victor Hugo (1802—1885)
French poet, dramatist, and novelist.



WILLS

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see "MONEY" for related links


I leave my silver tankard to the eldest son of Old
John, as the representative of the family. I would
have left it to Old John himself, but he would melt
it down and make temperance medals and that
would be a sacrilege. . . .I leave Parson Chavasse
(Maggy's husband) the snuff box I got from the
Sarnia Militia, as a small token of gratitude for
the service he has done my family in taking a
sister no man of taste would have taken.
--William Dunlop, Canada [1842]

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily
work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom
it was bequeathed.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_English Traits_ [1856] "Religion"

Seeing that I had the misfortune to be married to the
aforesaid Elizabeth, who, ever since our union, has
tormented me in every possible way; that not content
with making game of all my remonstrances, she has
done all she could to render my life miserable; that
Heaven seems to have sent her into the world solely
to drive me out of it; that the strength of Samson,
the genius of Homer, the prudence of Augustus, the
skill of Pyrrhus, the patience of Job, the philosophy
of Socrates, the subtlety of Hannibal, the vigilance
of Hermogenes, would not suffice to subdue the
perversity of her character . . . weighing all
these considerations . . . I bequeath, to my said
wife Elizabeth, the sum of one shilling.
--John George [1781]

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Heinrich Heine (1797—1856)
German poet.

In 1841 Heine married Eugénie Mirat, a
saleswoman in a Parisian boot shop. She
was uneducated, foolish, and vain. Heine's
affection for her did not preclude an awareness
of her shortcomings. At his death he left her
his whole estate on condition that she marry
again,'' because then there will be at least
one man who will regret my death.''

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To the worst of women, Claude Charlotte de
Grammont, unfortunately my wife, guilty as
she is of all crimes, I leave five-and-forty
brass halfpence, which will buy a pullet for
her supper. A better gift than her father
can make her; for I have known when, having
not the money, neither had he the credit for
such a purchase; he being the worst of men,
and his wife being the worst of women . . .
Had I ever known their characters I had never
married their daughter, and made myself unhappy.
--Henry, Earl of Stafford [17th century]

A son could bear complacently the death of his
father while the loss of his inheritance might drive
him to despair.
--Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527)
Florentine statesman and political philosopher.

I never liked lawyers as a class and to keep away
from them and steer clear of their inveigling schemes
and grasping machination — ever an active ingredient
in their diabolical profession — has been my constant
life-long effort. . . .The incontrovertible facts in
my case are these — there never was a better, all-
round individual ever set foot upon the regions of
this broad state than myself.
--Joseph H. Melchoir, Seattle [c. 1900]

I give nothing to my Lord Saye, and I do make him
this legacy willingly, because I know he will faithfully
distribute it unto the poor. I give to the Lieutenant-
General Cromwell one of my words . . . which he
must want, seeing that he hath never kept any
of his own.
--Philip, fifth Earl of Pembroke [17th century]

Before anything else is to be done 50 cents is to be
paid to my son-in-law to enable him to buy for himself
a good stout rope with which to hang himself, and thus
rid mankind of one of the most infamous scoundrels
that ever roamed this broad land or dwelt outside of
a penitentiary.
--Garvey B. White [1908]

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escheat (noun)
The reversion of the property of a deceased person
to the state when there are no legal heirs.



WINE

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Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that
I may wet my mind and say something clever.
--Aristophanes (c. 450—c. 388 BC)
Greek comic dramatist.
_Knights_ [424 BC], line 92

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for
thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
--Bible
"Timothy" 5:23 (KJV)

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At one point, a whole group of Americans came
to visit us in Munich. There were Lew Wasserman,
his wife Edie, Ray Stark, Charlie Feldman. About
twenty people. Anne and I took them to a restaurant,
the Schwarzwalder, the Black Forest restaurant,
famous for its wine. It didn't serve beer, a unique
thing in Germany.

I was feeling very Continental, and wanted to
impress my American friends with my linguistic
abilities. In my best German, I ordered the wine
that I thought my wife, who knows much more than
I do about wine, had ordered a few days before.

When they brought it to me, I went through the
ritual of sniffing it, commenting on the bouquet,
the aroma; tasting it and declaring it to be
excellent. Then the waiter went around the table
filling glasses. During all this, Anne was on the
opposite side of the table talking with Lew
Wasserman, paying no attention to my pompous
act of being the Continental.

When the wine came to my wife, she sipped it and
immediately called the wine steward over. He took
it, smelled it, and immediately started to pick up
all the glasses that he had poured. All eyes turned
to me as he went around collecting glasses, coming
closer to me. As he came to pick up my wine, I put
my hand over the glass. "I like it." That ended
my career as a wine connoisseur.

--Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916— )
American film actor and producer.
_The Ragman's Son_ [1988], Ch. 27

& note:

Swell or Swill?
Top Vineyards Fend Off Bogus Bottles; 'French' Vintages Produced in China
By Stacy Meichtry
_The Wall Street Journal_
August 10, 2006

BOLGHERI, Italy — Marquis Nicolò Incisa della Rochetta has no gripe with the look of the wine bottle with the 1995 Sassicaia label that sits on his file cabinet. Nor does he mind how it tastes. The problem is, he didn't produce it. Unlike authentic Sassicaia, the bottle doesn't come from vineyards on the Marquis's family estate on a hillside along the Tuscan coast. Instead, it was snagged with 20,000 other counterfeit bottles in a raid by Italian government inspectors.

Sassicaia is one of a number of top wine makers struggling to fend off a growing menace: bogus bottles bearing some of the most prestigious labels in the business. Other victims in recent years include France's Chateau Mouton Rothschild and Australia's Penfolds Grange — labels that command as much as $3,000 a bottle.

"Counterfeiting is always on the rise," says Giuseppe Fugaro, head of the Ministry of Agriculture's antifraud unit in Naples.

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In the wake of the investigation, the Marquis Incisa della Rochetta has redesigned his bottle to make it more distinctive and is mulling adding a microchip to the label.

Claudio Gufoni, a 59-year-old wine enthusiast who lives in Santa Croce sull'Arno, east of Pisa, was the client who was duped into buying more than 100 bottles of the bogus Sassicaia. Although prosecutors confiscated most of his fake bottles as evidence, a few were left behind. Mr. Gufoni says he now serves them to unsuspecting guests: "No one has noticed the difference."

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Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.
--Thomas Fuller (1654—1734)
English writer and physician.

From wine what sudden friendship springs!
--John Gay (1685—1732)
English poet and dramatist.
_Fables, II [1738], "The Squire and His Cur"

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say
that it makes him more pleasing to others.... This is one of
the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words
for thoughts.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791], "28 April 1778"

The Spanish wine, my God, is foul,
catpiss is champagne compared, this
is the sulphurous urination of some
aged horse.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
Letter to Rhys Davies, from Palma [25 April 1929].

Wer nicht liebt Weib, Wein und Gesang,
A Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang.
(Who loves not wine, women, and song
Remains a fool his whole life long.)
--Martin Luther (1483—1546)
German Protestant theologian.
Inscribed in the Luther room in Wartburg.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.
--Friedrich von Schiller (1759—1805)
German poet, historian, and dramatist.
_The Piccolomini and the Death of Wallenstein_ [1799]
act II, sc. xii

My nose itched, and I knew I should
drink wine or kiss a fool.
--Jonathan Swift (1667—1745)
Anglo-Irish poet and satirist.

What stores of sentiment in that butt of raciest
Sherry! What a fund of pensive thought! What
suggestions for delicious remembrance! What
"aids to reflection" in that Hock of a century
old! What sparkling fancies, whirling and foaming,
from a stout body of thought in that full and ripe
Champagne! What mild and serene philosophy in
the Burgundy, ready to shed "its sunset glow"
on society and nature!
--Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795—1854)
English judge and author.

It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding,
but I think you'll be amused by its pretension.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
Caption for _New Yorker_ cartoon [27 March 1937].

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appellation (noun) [æ-pê-'ley-shên]
1. A name or title;
2. The legally trademarked name of a wine
that authenticates the type of vine and
district where the wine originates.

vindemiate (verb) [vin-'dem-i-yeyt]
To vintage (gather) grapes or pick other fruit.
A fruit gatherer is a vindemiator and the activity
is vindemiation.



WINNIE THE POOH

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see: CHILDREN


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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but
it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong
places.
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ [1926]


......Next to [the Piglet's] house was a piece of
broken board which had: "TRESPASSERS W"
on it. When Christopher Robin asked the Piglet
what it meant, he said it was his grandfather's
name, and had been in the family for a long time.
Christopher Robin said you *couldn't* be called
Trespassers W, and Piglet said yes, you could,
because his grandfather was, and it was short
for Trespassers Will, which was short of
Trespassers William. And his grandfather had
had two names in case he lost one —Trespassers
after an uncle, and William after Trespassers.
"I've got two names," said Christopher Robin
carelessly. "Well, there you are, that proves
it," said Piglet.
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_Winnie-the-Pooh_ [1926]


By the time it came to the edge of the forest the
stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river,
and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and
sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger,
but moved more slowly. For it knew now where
it was going, and it said to itself, "There is no
hurry. We shall get there some day."
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_House at Pooh Corner_ [1928]
Ch. vi - "In which Pooh Invents a New Game and
Eeyore Joins in", opening paragraph.


"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said
Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say
to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh.
"What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's
going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing,"
he said.
--A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne (1882—1956)
English writer for children.
_House at Pooh Corner_ [1928]

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WINNING

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Slow and steady wins the race.
--Æsop (c.620 B.C.—c.560 B.C.)
(Thought to be a legendary figure.)
_Æsop's Fables_
"The Hare and the Tortoise"

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
--Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832—1898)
English writer and logician.
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865],
ch. 3 "A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale"

What is our aim? . . . Victory, victory at all costs,
victory in spite of all terror; victory, however long
and hard the road may be; for without victory,
there is no survival.
--Winston Churchill (1874—1965)
British Conservative statesman and
Prime Minister [1940—1945, 1951—1955].
Speech in House of Commons [13 May 1940].

The game is done! I've won, I've won!
Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" [1798]
Part III, Stanza 12

There is a wonderful anecdote about the election of 1960:
the evening of the election, Johnson called up Kennedy
and said, 'I see that I'm winning Texas, you're losing Ohio,
and we're doing all right together in Pennsylvania.'
--Robert Dallek
in Brian Lamb _Booknotes: Stories From American History_ [2001].

'How you play the game' is for college boys. When you're
playing for money, winning is the only thing that matters.
Show me a good loser in professional sports, and I'll show
you an idiot. Show me a sportsman, and I'll show you a
player I'm looking to trade to Oakland.
--Leo [Ernest] Durocher (1905—1991)
American professional baseball player and manager
who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1994.
_Nice Guys Finish Last_ [1975]

Winning is everything. The only ones who remember
you when you come in second are your wife and
your dog.
--Damon Hill (1960— )
English motor-racing driver.
In "Sunday Times" [18 December 1994].

Not in the clamor of the crowded street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
"The Poets" [1876]

Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.
--Dennis O'Kelly (c. 1720—1787)
Irish racehorse owner.
(Comment on a horse race at Epsom [3 May 1769].)
In _Annals of Sporting_ [1822].

One more such victory and we are lost.
--Pyrrhus (c. 318—272 BC)
King of Epirus.
(On defeating the Romans at Asculun [279 B.C.].)
In Plutarch _Parallel Lives_ "Pyrrhus."

Sure, winning isn't everything.
It's the only thing.
--Henry "Red" Sanders
In "Sports Illustrated" [26 December 1955],
usually attributed to Vince Lombardi {ODTQ}.


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