"Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts."
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"Have caviar if you like, but it tastes like herring to me."
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"The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals."
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"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"
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"If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter."
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"The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation; I should consider the speeches of Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, as pre-eminent specimens of logic, taste, and that sententious brevity which, using not a word to spare, leaves not a moment for inattention to the hearer. Amplification is the vice of modern oratory."
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"He took in the squeaky music, the vulgar and pining melodies, because passion immobilizes good taste and seriously considers what soberly would be thought of as funny and to be resented."
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"He who tastes not, knows not."
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"All loves are a bridge to Divine love. Yet, those who have not had a taste of it do not know!"
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"I went to a restaurant the other day called 'Taste of the Raj.' The waiter hit me with a stick and got me to build a complicated railway system."
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"It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character."
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"...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood."
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"she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
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"All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste."
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"I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh."
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"When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing."
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"The appetite for silence is seldom an acquired taste."
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"I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see."
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"I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. That's my own taste. I prefer to stumble on it."
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"Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste."
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