“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
— David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
“I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.”
— L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
“The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world’s luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.”
— Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson