"Taste is the next gift to genius."
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"The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel."
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"Taste the joy That springs from labor."
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"One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long."
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"The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable."
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"Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste."
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"There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]"
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""Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are.""
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"Our purity of taste is best tested by its universality, for if we can only admire this thing or that, we maybe use that our cause for liking is of a finite and false nature."
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"There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment."
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"The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it."
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"Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection."
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"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind."
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"Whatever the Benefits of Fortune are , they yet require a Palate fit to relish and taste them; 'Tis Fruition, and not Possession, that renders us Happy."
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"It's not a special taste. An American composer should have something to say to a cab driver."
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"The greatest joy a petty soul can taste is to dupe a great soul and catch it in a snare."
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"Pure and unblemished souls must taste very bland, with an aftertaste of bitterness."
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"Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste, and is rejected with disdain, at least rated at much lower value."
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"I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music."
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"Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all."
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