Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A ma…

Samuel Butler
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. ✨ Samuel Butler (1951). Notebooks: Selections Edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill

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