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“Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable unto him. A new friend is as new wine: when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 467b9837518c1730485993ccd55000b3fcb3e540a43fb3c318d4b845ab721dde
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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