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One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.

Tobias Smollett
Zest, Giving, Ham
Tobias Smollett (1820). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker”, p.161
One wit, like a knuckle of ham in soup, gives a zest and flavour to the dish, but more than one serves only to spoil the pottage.