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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:2071
AUTHOR:John Webster (1580?–1634)
QUOTATION: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. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Westward Hoe. Act ii. Sc. 2.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
See Bacon, Quotation 57. [back]
 

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