"You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."
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"Too much good taste can be boring"
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"Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
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"The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste."
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"Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment."
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"Nothing tastes as good as looking good feels."
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"Fashion designers are dictators of taste."
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"Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit."
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"They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
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"Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices."
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"The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes."
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"Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger."
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"Nothing is so improving to the temper as the study of the beauties either of poetry, eloquence, music, or painting."
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"Caught between the tongue and the taste."
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"Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste."
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"Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities."
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"You're a woman, at least you taste like you are."
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"There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer."
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"My eclectic taste allows me to do something unique and not box myself in."
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"There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition."
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