Joseph Chenier quotes
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“Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.”
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“Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.”
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“Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.”
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Source : Alafair Burke (2004). “Judgment Calls”, p.51, Macmillan
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“Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.”
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“A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.”
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“A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.”
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“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.”
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“Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.”
Source : Abel Stevens (1881). “Madame de Staël: A Study of Her Life and Times: the First Revolution and the First Empire”
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