“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
“There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.”
"Anthony Trollope," Century Magazine (July 1883); reprinted in Partial Portraits (1888).
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