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The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
-William Hazlitt
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The Diffusion Of Taste Is Not The

William Hazlitt
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
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Taste governs every free - as opposed to rote - human response. nothing is more decisive. there is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion - and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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