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“Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.”

Character Water Taste Mouths Flow Flavour

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.”

Men Remember Water Quality Objects He Man Lovers Taste Property Determine Substance Memorable Streams Native One Man Impress Susceptibility Rendezvous Acquired Taste Water Power

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands - alternately cool, warm, moist and dry - a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience.”

Body Water Emotion Sea Effects Taste Bird Conscience Warm Smell Dry Sand Weary Outlook Dwelling Spit Bathing Bodies Of Water Sea Birds Bleaching

Book:Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

Source: Isle of the Dead ; Eye of Cat

“Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.”

Men Dies Water Taste Fishes Tolerance Diverse

Author:Zhuangzi

“It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method. The uncultivated, unsophisticated trout in unfrequented waters prefers the bait; and the rural people, whose sole object in going a-fishing appears to be to catch fish, indulge them in their primitive taste for the worm. No sportsman however, will use anything but the fly, except when he happens to be alone.”

People Wells Persons Use Happens Water Known Sea Objects Taste Training Rivers Regard Method Fishes Reputation Boat Lakes Fishing Sole Primitive Well Known Worms Indulge Bait Trout Sportsman

Book:In the Wilderness

Source: In the Wilderness

“The water in L.A. tastes like bleach. I literally have to make my tea with Evian water.”

Water Taste Tea Bleach

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“Arguments could fill a marriage like water, running through everything, always, with no taste or color but lots of noise.”

Running Water Color Taste Argument Noise

Book:Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

“A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.”

Water Food Cold Taste Cooking Wine Meat Culinary Olives Cold Water

Book:Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

Source: Prospero's cell: a guide to the landscape and manners of the island of Corcyra

“My family dumplings are sleek and seductive, yet stout and masculine. They taste of meat, yet of flour. They are wet, yet they are dry. They have weight, but they are light. Airy, yet substantial. Earth, air, fire, water; velvet and elastic! Meat, wheat and magic! They are our family glory!”

Light Earth Water Fire Magic Air Food Taste Glory My Family Weight Cooking Our Family Meat Dry Culinary Wet Masculine Wheat Seductive Velvet Airy Flour Stout Dumplings

Author:Robert P. T. Coffin

“If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.”

Ifs Heart Stills Water Clear Sky Taste Pure Ocean Cups Lakes Salt Salty Fresh Water

Author:Jack Kornfield

“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”

Children Littles Parent Water Wonder Principles Taste Bitter Poison Fountain

Book:Locke, Berkely & Hume

Source: Locke, Berkely & Hume