“737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“166. Of all smells, bread; of all tasts, salt.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
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