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Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Van Wyck Brooks
World, Littles, Herbs
Van Wyck Brooks (1944). “Literature in New England: The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865. New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915”, New York Garden City [1944]
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.