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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