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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them. – Johann von Goethe

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Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. – Helen Keller

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The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense. – Source Unknown

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We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. – Denis Diderot

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Mystery is not profoundness. – Charles Caleb Colton

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