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“Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Apothegms. No. 97.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 75aaa01e0cc9c5337cc9572e9a308910448e1c6ab60e5986d787c69404d6b7f2
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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