"I find friendship to be like wine,..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.
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“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
“If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.”
“Private fortunes, in the present state of our circulation, are at the mercy of those self-created money lenders, and are prostrated by the floods of nominal money with which their avarice deluges us.”
More on Friendship
“Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.”
“Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade.”
“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.”
More on Age
“The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.”
“Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.”
“There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.”