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“And by the way, after drinking wine, the parrot becomes more saucy than ever.”     
                         - Aristotle, History of Animals, VIII, 13.
 
 
Aristotle, doth he opine, That parrots grow saucy with wine. I can't help but think He drove it to drink, The source of its moral decline.

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