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“Next to occupation is the building up of good taste. That is difficult, slow work. Few achieve it. It means all the difference in the world in the end.”

World Mean Ends Next Difficult Differences Achieve Building Taste Occupation Good Taste Building Up

Book:Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

Source: Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout

“The reputation of a Don Juan gives to a man the most dangerous power. Wise virgins resist it, but foolish virgins frequently yield to the desire to take a celebrated lover from a rival - even from a friend. This emotion is a complex one, mad up of vanity, respect for another woman's taste, and the need to establish self-assurance by winning a difficult victory. Don Juan chose his first mistresses; later he was chosen.”

“Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.”

Running Joy Difficult Feet Tears Sweet Taste Drawing Honey Difficult Days

Author:James Whitcomb Riley

“You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men.”

Men Giving Mind Difficult Pleasure Objects Taste Ordinary Curiosity Luxury Crowns Cheaper Ordinary Man Caprice Pascal

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Few women have both taste and truth; and indeed, this special bit or moral mosaic is just the most difficult piece of carpentry in the whole of the human workshop.”

Humans Whole Bits Difficult Moral Pieces Special Taste Workshops Mosaics Carpentry

Author:Eliza Lynn Linton

“Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire.”

Way Humans Persons Suffering Difficult Taste Dignity Complexes Admire Tragic Human Dignity Monotonous Dealings Wallowing Misadventure

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“Too many students who are technically quite far advanced do not properly interpret the technically less difficult pieces they play, because they regard them as beneath serious consideration. This is a fundamental error in musical taste and judgment.”

Play Difficult Pieces Students Serious Taste Judgment Regard Fundamentals Errors Musical Consideration Musical Taste Taste And Judgment

Book:Violin Playing as I Teach it

Source: Violin Playing as I Teach it

“At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.”

Ifs Knows Moments Difficult Know How Doors Comfort Taste Notion Abundance Within Reach Difficult Moments Apricots

Author:Isabel Allende

“And then I was asleep. That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep, that sleep that is not particularly restful but difficult to wake up from all the same.”

Stills Difficult Sleep Taste Mouths Wake Up Restful

Book:Looking for Alaska: A Novel

Source: Looking for Alaska: A Novel

“The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if the entire city of Paris had agreed to abide by a single understated taste. Each neighbor was doing his or her own to keep up standards, which was difficult because the French ideal wasn't clearly delineated like the neatness and greenness of American lawns, but more of a picturesque disrepair. It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”

Source: The Marriage Plot: A Novel