“Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”

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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

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“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

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“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”

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