Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from …

William Hazlitt
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. ✨ William Hazlitt (1852). Men and manners: sketches and essays, p.199
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Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination. ✨ William Hazlitt (1852). Men and manners: sketches and essays, p.199

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