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Re: “I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.” (Elbert Hubbard)

> Does that have any meaning anymore considering that people now take

>> their own personal likes and dislikes so seriously? > > You mean referring to wine, I suppose? > > > -- > Mike Tommasi - Six Fours, France > email link
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Just as I thought - the meaning is so deeeeeep ........ As E.G. Krishnamurti said, "Don't ask me these questions." Dee Dovey

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Dee Dovey
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Depends how you interpret "have". You need to taste wine to appreciate it - you only have it in the colloquial sense of having a sip, or having a glass of the wine.

Possessing a bottle gives me very little pleasure. And indeed if it truns out to be corked it never will.

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Steve Slatcher

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