"An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing."
— Idealism

January 1, 1970

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H. L. Mencken, A Little Book in C Major (1916), p. 19; later altered to "concludes that it will also make better soup", in A Book of Burlesques (1924), p. 205 and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949), p. 617.