1903 The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks by V.B. Lewis

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Toasts and After Dinner Speeches

May the juice of the grape enliven each soul, And good humor preside at the head of each bowL

Who loves not women, wine and song, Will be a fool his whole life long.

One wife, one bottle, and one friend: the first beau– tiful, the second ever full, the last faithful. The Man We Love-He who thinks the most good and speaks the least ill of his neighbors. May we never have friends who, like shadows, keep close to us in the sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day or in the night.

Here's to those who'd love us If we only cared. Here's to those we'd love If we only dared.

Here's a health to all ·good lassies! Pledge it merrily; fill your glasses! Let the bumper toast go round.

Drink, boys, drink, and drive away sorrow- For perhaps we may not drink again to-morrow.

Here's lovers two to the maiden true, And four _to the maid caressing, But the wayward girl with lips that curl Keeps twenty lovers guessing.