“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears."
-Hubert H. Humphrey

Shakespeare > Humphrey ;)

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E.B. White

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Shakespeare was the man.

“Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.”

Henry David Thoreau

"The stench of one fart will overpower the pleasant sweetness of a dozen roses."

anonymous