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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."
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"I don't think I've got bad taste. I've got no taste."
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"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
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"Taste is a result of a thousand distastes."
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"Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity."
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"Good taste is as tiring as good company."
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"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."
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"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."
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"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
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"A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa."
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"A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops."
Influence
"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
Answers
"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man."
Nature
"No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else."
Man
"The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing."
Trust
"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
Purpose
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
Society
"The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand."
Difference
"A friend in power is a friend lost."
Friendship
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."
Education
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