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

Quote by Samuel Butler

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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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. – Samuel Butler

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All truth is not to be told at all times. – Samuel Butler

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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. – Samuel Butler

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