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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired."

"Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels."

"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."

"Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert."

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"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 discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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