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“We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.”

Mind May Ideas Would Be Fine Please Taste Essence Refuse Intellect Suits Compliment Delicate Shocked Flattery Disgusted Fine Lady

Book:Lacon: or, Many things in few words

Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words

“The essence of good taste is a sense of values, and a sense of values is the pivotal point of good living.”

Values Taste Essence Good Taste Pivotal Good Living

Book:Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

Source: Vogue's book of etiquette: a complete guide to traditional forms and modern usage

“the essence of vulgarity seemed to lie in the pretence at being or the attempt to be, something that one really was not, with the resulting lack of ease and dignity and taste.”

Lying Taste Dignity Essence Ease Pretense Vulgarity Pretence

Book:Singing Waters

Source: Singing Waters

“There is one Cosmic Essence, all-pervading, all-knowing, all-powerful. This nameless formless essence can be approached by any name, any form, any symbol that suites the taste of the individual. Follow your religion, but try to understand the real purpose behind all of the rituals and traditions, and experience that Oneness.”

Trying Real Form Purpose Names Individual Powerful Behinds Knowing Taste Tradition Essence Symbols Oneness Ritual Cosmic Nameless

Author:Swami Satchidananda

“Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.”

Men Ends Food Taste Essence Available Suits Transcendentalism Essence Of Life

Author:Sai Baba

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

People Long Soul Past Remember Waiting Broken Bears Taste Long Time Essence Structure Endure Smell Tiny Ruins Faithful Fragile Persistent Recollection Taste And Smell

Book:Swann's Way

Source: Swann's Way

“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.”

Mind Looks Wish Wonder Goes On Taste Mouths Essence Teeth Meals Fullness Good Living Good Meals

Book:HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

Source: HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY

“The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.”

Children Turns Father Steps Journey Taste Essence Fruit Planes Fatherhood Father Son Begin Again Great Father Daughter To Father Fatherhood Inspirational Father Child

Author:Angelo Patri

“Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste.”

Taste Essence Simplicity Good Taste

Author:Cary Grant

“Do we, as humans, having an ability to reason and to communicate abstract ideas verbally and in writing, and to form ethical and moral judgments using the accumulated knowledge of the ages, have the right to take the lives of other sentient organisms, particularly when we are not forced to do so by hunger or dietary need, but rather do so for the somewhat frivolous reason that we like the taste of meat? In essence, should we know better?”