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An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
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While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
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For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.
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We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment.
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We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.
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A substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it.
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For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
