From The Hobbit (Chapter XVIII, pg 243):
'. . . . There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. . . .'
[Update :] So did we pull out the Pinotage and the cheese? No, we divvied up some Trader Joe's Candy Cane Joe-Joe's (why make them possessive?), then divvied up a slab of dark chocolate fudge from work and watched Miracle on 34th Street (1947), part of our drive to watch all things Christmas from our collection.
