274.--The beauty of novelty is to love as the flower to the fruit; it … — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

274.--The beauty of novelty is to love as the flower to the fruit; it lends a lustre which is easily lost, but which never returns.

Place: ¶434
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