“If my best wines mislike thy taste,
And my best service win thy frown,
Then tarry not, I bid thee haste;
There's many another Inn in town.”

—  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quits; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.

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