#peculiar

The number of flavors is infinite, for every soluble body has a peculiar flavor, like none other. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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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. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

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In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

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Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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I love my love with a b because she is peculiar. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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She groaned as her face turned to press against the rosewood floor. "Welly, remind me to order a better mattress for my bed. This one is far too firm." "Oh, Eliza," Wellington gasped, now remembering why he was in these lush surroundings. "No broken nose, I hope." "S'all right," Braun slurred. Her voiced dropped to a whisper. "My ample bosom broke my fall. ↗

— Philippa Ballantine

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Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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