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Which Quotes by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
- Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.
- I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired…
- Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action…
- The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.
- The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in…
- Taste, which enables us to distinguish all that has a flavor from that which is insipid.
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