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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument."

"I believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."
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"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."

"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."

"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."

"Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies."

"All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them."

"I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power."
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