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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 believe that if ever I had to practice cannibalism, I might manage if there were enough tarragon around."
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
"The Knower of 'taste' is the Soul. The enjoyer of 'taste' is not the Soul."
"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."
"I don't know how to do the other, so I won't even consider television until the audience's taste changes."
"I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired."
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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."
"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."
"The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure."
"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."
"The discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity, than the discovery of a new star."
"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."
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