“So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.”
Source: Odes to Common Things
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To.——, The Story of Justin Martyr and Other Poems; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 455.

“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.”
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“Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.”

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”
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“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
Edward Thomas, "Early One Morning" from Poems (1917) http://www.richmondreview.co.uk/library/thomas04.html#five
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