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Rene Char Poet
Taste

"To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
Taste

"Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
Taste

"As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons."

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Edmund Burke Philosopher, Politician
Taste

"It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise."

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
Taste

"Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Taste

"Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
Taste

"We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with."

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