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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/35871">Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2895/">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/senses/">Senses</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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