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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste."

"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."

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

"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other."

"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."

"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 torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied."

"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."

"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."
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