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"The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
"Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me."
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
"All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things."
"I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder."
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
"There is no sense in making statements that will not continue to be true after they are made."
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"When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate."
"Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved."
"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."
"The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown."
"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."
"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."
"Nothing is more pleasant than to see a pretty woman, her napkin well placed under her arms, one of her hands on the table, while the other carries to her mouth, the choice piece so elegantly carved."
"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."
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