"The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]"
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"Drinking is bad taste but tastes good."
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"Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful."
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"It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian."
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"A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors"
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"Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope."
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"We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be)."
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"Truth always has a bewitching savor of newness in it, and novelty at the first taste recalls that original sweetness to the tongue; but alas for him who would make the one a substitute for the other."
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"Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!"
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"It is our taste that decides against Christianity now, no longer our reasons."
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"It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant."
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"Respectability offends my taste."
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"Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste."
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"And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!"
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"Let's say you have some chicken stock and you're making soup, and out of everything you can taste, some of the things you put in and some of the things you don't. So you start out with an African spice then you hear some Brazilian music, so then it changes. Then you hear Jamaican and it changes again. And the result depends on how much of each spice you put into it. Now, I've been putting in spices since I started playing professionally in 1945."
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"And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted"
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"Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters."
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"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
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"As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour."
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"I can name a LOT of things that taste better than skinny feels… Potatoes! Bread!"
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