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-'''''De gustibus non disputandum est''''' is a [[Latin]] [[Maxim (saying)|maxim]]. It means “one must not dispute about tastes.” (literally, "tastes are not disputable", or even more so, "There will not be a disputing of tastes.") The implication is that opinions about matters of taste are not objectively right or wrong, and hence that disagreements about matters of taste cannot be objectively resolved. 
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-This phrase is famously misquoted in Act I of [[Anton Chekhov]]'s play ''[[The Seagull]]''. The character Shamrayev conflates it with the phrase [[de mortuis nil nisi bonum]] (in the alternate form: ''de mortuis, aut bene aut nihil'' – "of the dead, either [speak] good or [say] nothing"), resulting in "de gustibus aut bene, aut nihil", "Let nothing be said of taste but what is good". 
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-== See also == 
-* [[List of Latin phrases]] 
 +'''''The Seagull''''' (''Chayka'') is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major [[Play (theatre)|plays]] by the Russian dramatist [[Anton Chekhov]]. ''The Seagull'' was written in 1895 and first produced in [[1896 in literature#New drama|1896]]. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the [[Russian symbolism|symbolist]] [[playwright]] Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.
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The Seagull (Chayka) is the first of what are generally considered to be the four major plays by the Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov. The Seagull was written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow story writer Trigorin.



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