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  • Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

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  • Saadi A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Horace Walpole Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Francis Bacon Some books are to be tasted, some to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
    Essays (1597)
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Brendan Behan The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Bee Wilson There's a new dividing line in olives: between those who prefer Nocellara to all other varieties, and the people who have never tasted them.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Mark Twain When one has tasted it [Watermelon] he knows what the angels eat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Philip Roth You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.
    The Dying Animal 2001
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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