“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”
John Betjeman (1906–1984) English poet, writer and broadcaster
“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”
— Richard Paul Evans, book The Christmas Box
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Context: Who and from where are you Dionysus?
Since by the true Bacchus,
I do not recognize you; I know only the son of Zeus.
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