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Friendship like wine (Quotation)

"I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man’s milk, & restorative cordial."
- Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, August 17, 1811[1]

References

  1. ^ PTJ:RS, 4:88. Transcription available at Founders Online.

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