"To be looked upon as a fool by……" — Georges Courteline

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• I'm an absolute connoisseur of cheeseburgers and like to think that I can detect even mere percentages of shift in… — Alton Brown
• ...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one… — Arthur Rubinstein
• Definition: CONNOISSEUR, n. A specialist who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. — Ambrose Bierce
• I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear. — Peter Straub
• Children are the true connoisseurs. What’s precious to them has no price, only value. — Bel Kaufman
• American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained… — Camille Paglia
• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are… — Pablo Picasso
• The connoisseur might be defined as a laconic art historian, and the art historian as a loquacious connoisseur. — Erwin Panofsky
• There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
• I hate that aesthetic game of the eye and the mind, played by these connoisseurs, these mandarins who "appreciate" beauty.… — Pablo Picasso
• Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter. — Mel Gussow
• The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. — Sam Keen

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