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“I always felt sorry for the sidekick as a kid. They never got their due and it left a very bad taste in the mouth - they are defined by a subordinate relationship to someone else. I always felt like a bit of sidekick when I was a kid and it didn't feel fair.”

Feels Kids Left Felt Bits Taste Mouths Fairs Sorry Dues Defined Subordinates Bad Taste Sidekicks

Author:China Mieville

“The women of the Right are certainly the most beautiful the Left has no taste, not even when it comes to women.”

Beautiful Left Taste

Author:Silvio Berlusconi

“Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat.... There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right.”

Ifs Men Humans Hands Form Winning Left Differences Brain Cutting Groups Victory Taste Creatures Members Essentials Fingers Defeat Various Bones Damage Left Hand Mutilation

Book:the zodiac arch

Source: the zodiac arch

“Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.”

Left Mankind Inspirational Life Taste Simplicity Minimalism Simplifying Life Acquired Taste Simplifying Your Life

Book:Modes and Morals

Source: Modes and Morals

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.”

Ifs Giving Whole Left Deals Taste Orange

Book:Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls

Source: Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls

“That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men do, what I read, I should have been able to call myself an educated man. But that power I have never possessed. Something is always left--something dim and inaccurate--but still something sufficient to preserve the taste for more. I am inclined to think that it is so with most readers.”

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.”

Thinking Men Left Easy Taste Mark Nutrition Infatuation Tin Fiddle

Author:Robert Farrar Capon

“My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.”

Wells Earth Faces Father Left Adventure Taste Died Twenties Dollars Pursuit Almighty Twenty One Resigned Wanderers Father Died My Father Died

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“artists try to say things that can't be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling; a taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.”

Trying Said Feelings Artist Left Knowing Color Sweet Taste Longing Painful Frustration Capture Fragile Gestures

Author:Alan Alda