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When I need a word and do not find it in French, I select it from other tongues, and the reader has either to understand or translate me. Such is my fate.

~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

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Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

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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 the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

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I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.

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Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

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The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.

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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 of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.

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The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

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The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Lawyer

Born: April 1st, 1755

Died: February 2nd, 1826

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