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"Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid."
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"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."

"In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste."

"My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano."

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

"If I can't suck your milkshake through a straw, it's not a milkshake--it's a glass of ice cream."

"I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."

"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist."
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"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."

"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."

"Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."
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