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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

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Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

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It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. ↗

— Torquato Tasso

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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

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Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will. ↗

— Paul Klee

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Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit. ↗

— Thomas Willis

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Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? ↗

— Ray Kroc

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As long as you're green, you're growing. As soon as you're ripe, you start to rot. ↗

— Ray Kroc

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There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. ↗

— Joseph Roux

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