#old friend

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. ↗

— Athenaeus

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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. ↗

— William Banting

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