Quote#Books & Reading
For him delicious flavors dwell
Quote byFrank Dempster Sherman · 1860–1916
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "The Book-Collector", in The Century, vol. 31, no. 1 (November 1885) p. 160. Also in Madrigals and Catches (New York: White, Stokes, & Allen, 1887) p. 52.
English (original)
For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel.
— Frank Dempster Sherman
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