Taste

Taste

Taste, gustatory perception, or gustation is one of the five traditional senses. Taste is the sensation produced when a substance in the mouth reacts chemically with receptors of taste buds.

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    “One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.”
    —Benjamin Haydon (1786–1846)

    “They surfeited with honey and began
    To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little
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    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “No taste is so acquired as that for someone else’s quality of mind.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)