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.

  • -- Samuel Butler 塞缪尔巴特勒

字母像酒;声音若坚固,存而不坏。一个人放下书信就像他放下酒窖一样。

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In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

人老了,就像一堆别人寄来的信。我们不再是过去的我们,我们已经到来。

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

坏消息不是酒。它不会随着年龄增长而改善。

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

酒是人的窥孔。