Walter Savage Landor Quote

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.


Pericles and Aspasia (ed. 1836)


As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them... so there are some men with whom a slight...

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them... so there are some men with whom a slight...

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them... so there are some men with whom a slight...

As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them... so there are some men with whom a slight...