"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent."
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
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"Forbidden fruit tastes sweet, but its aftertaste is bitter."
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"That tastes like hope feels."
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"That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep."
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"In nature two things do not occur-the wheel and good taste."
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"I have other tastes besides comedy. I love comedy. I adore it, but I love dramatic movies just as much."
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"Reform is a work of time; a national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once."
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"I believe in guilt. There's not enough guilt around these days for my taste."
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"Just how could a nation often be great if it's bread tastes want Kleenex."
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"[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's."
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"A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse."
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"You can't go wrong with cocktail weenies. They look as good as they taste. And they come in this delicious red sauce. It looks like ketchup, it tastes like ketchup, but brother, it ain't ketchup!"
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"She exists, Damon. There are women out there who crave what we can give them. Once you taste it, you can't ever let go of it."
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"I've been making a lot of pasta. It's easy. There are unusual tastes that you can combine. I cook because my kids like a certain kind of thing and then they want it over and over."
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"People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay."
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"Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves."
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"Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance."
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"It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment."
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