Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1884 — Flowers and Men. [ARTICLE]

Flowers and Men.

As there are some flowers which yon should smell but slightly, to extract all that is pleasant in them, and which if you do otherwise, emit what is unpleasant and noxious, so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable, a more intimate one would be unsatisfactory and unsafe.— Landor.