Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of…

Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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Francis Bacon, Apothegms, No. 97, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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