The melting-pot idea is futile. . . The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
After some while Bilbo became impatient. "Well, what is it?" he said. "The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making.
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.