"The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more."
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"Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness."
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"Who knows how to taste wine never drinks wine again, but tastes secrets instead"
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"Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire."
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"We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute."
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"How far is the light of the moon from the moon? How far is the taste of candy from the lip?"
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"It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste."
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"I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless."
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"Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind."
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"Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like."
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"Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit."
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"We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship."
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"This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste."
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"Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are."
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"Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?"
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"We are born dead, and we are becoming more and more contented with our condition. We are acquiring the taste for it."
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"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
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"The goods of Fortune, even such as they really are, still need taste to enjoy them. It is the enjoying no the possessing, that makes us happy."
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