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Lay Quotes by Samuel Butler
- 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.
- The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
- The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places
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- Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a… — Samuel Butler