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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
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Context: No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
