"A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man."
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"How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?"
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"The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately— long love doth so."
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"But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind"
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"Taste may change, but inclination never."
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"If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash."
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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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"Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity."
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"You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend."
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"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."
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"When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks."
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"It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire."
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"This soup tastes like windows"
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"The taste forever refines in the study of women."
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"In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth."
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"There are times when you have to choose between being human and having good taste."
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"This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store."
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"If Marilyn is in love with my husband it proves she has good taste, for I am in love with him too."
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"Nobody has tried to swallow us since I've been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste."
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"The taste of rain -- Why kneel?"
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