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The limits of pleasure are as yet neither known nor fixed, and that we have no idea what degree of bodily bliss we are capable of attaining.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1755
Born: April 1
Died: 1826
Died: February 2
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He who receives his friends and gives no personal attention to the meal which is being prepared for them, is not worthy of having friends.
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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
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Those from whom nature has withheld taste invented trousers.
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Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!
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Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste.
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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.
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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.
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