What did Shakespeare And Other VIPs Say About Food And Wine? Do you recall these famous quotations?

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 If music be the food of love, play on.

Shakespeare

Cassius has a lean and hungry look.

Julius Caesar, in the play of that name by William Shakespeare.



Champagne - in victory you deserve it, in defeat you need it.

Napoleon Bonaparte.

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