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Alfonso X of Castile

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Old wood to burn! Old wine to drink! Old friends to trust! Old authors to read! —Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appeared to be best in these four things.
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As quoted in Floresta Espa?ola de Apothegmas o Sentencias, by Melchior de Santa Cruz (1576), ii. 1. 20.

 
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