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“Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burns brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweetheart, are surest, and old lovers are soundest.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Westward Hoe. Act ii. Sc. 2.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- adea9507a7552a3faa757d46d843e9cbeeb8bc62fcef4fab08bbef2067d0744d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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