Castello Banfi - A large winemaker provides a guide to the area and the wines produced, with photographs, maps and historical information.
Montalcino - From ITWG, local history, wine facts and some photographs.
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
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Count your age with friends but not with years.
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Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
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This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
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A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
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