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title: "6 Old Authors Quotes by 5 authors"
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> [Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louise-imogen-guiney/quotations-such-as-have-point-and-lack-triteness-from-the-great-old/)

[Louise Imogen Guiney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louise-imogen-guiney/)

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> [Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samuel-taylor-coleridge/great-old-books-of-the-great-old-authors-are-not-in-everybody-s-reach/)

[Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samuel-taylor-coleridge/)

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> [“He agreed with Francis Bacon: Old friends to trust, old wood to burn, old authors to read.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lilian-jackson-braun/he-agreed-with-francis-bacon-old-friends-to-trust-old-wood-to-burn/)

[Lilian Jackson Braun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lilian-jackson-braun/)

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> [Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/age-appears-to-be-best-in-four-things-old-wood-best-to-burn-old-wine/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/francis-bacon/age-appears-best-in-four-things-old-wood-to-burn-old-wine-to-drink/)

[Francis Bacon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/francis-bacon/)

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> [Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/old-wood-best-to-burn-old-wine-to-drink-old-friends-to-trust-and-old/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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