Samuel Butler's Quote - Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping.

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

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

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SIR, more than kisses, letters mingle souls,
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