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• I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

  Gustav Mahler

  Understanding

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Female, Done

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• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Edward Thorndike

  Race, Numbers, Intellectual

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

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• Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

  Clement Freud

  Fats, Concealed

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• Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

  Mark Twain

  Circles, Two, Stories

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell

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• Turkey, unlike chicken, has very elegant characteristics. It has more of a cache than chicken. Turkey is a delicacy, so it should be presented in such a way.

  Todd English

  Turkeys, Cache, Way

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• A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

  David Hume

  Men, People, Choices

  David Hume (1875). “Essays Moral, Political, and Literary”, p.93

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• A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest.

  George Eliot

  Squirrels, Air, Forests

  George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.33

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• Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Ideas, Mind, Superficial

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.6, Arcade Publishing

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• Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.

  Margaret of Valois

  Virtue, Genuine

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• What you are is the most subtle delicacy of being.

  John de Ruiter

  Subtle

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• Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Book, Thinking, Hair

  Lisa Kleypas (2007). “Mine Till Midnight”, p.85, St. Martin's Press

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• Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Cleverness, Deceptive

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• Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

  Henning Eichberg

  Horse, Foundation, Position

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• For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Reading, Thinking, Imagination

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.207, Lulu.com

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• There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture; a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; a delicacy of honour, which is sensitive to shame; over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Men

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• It is upon record, that three centuries ago the tongue of the Right Whale was esteemed a great delicacy in France, and commanded large prices there.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Three, Records

  Herman Melville (2016). “Herman Melville The Dover Reader”, p.297, Courier Dover Publications

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• "Children, don't speak so coarsely," said Mr Webster, who had a vague notion that some supervision should be exercised over his daughters' speech, and that a line should be drawn, but never knew quite when to draw it. He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library.

  Robertson Davies

  Daughter, Running, Children

  "Tempest-Tost" by Robertson Davies, (Part 1), 1951.

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• [French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

  Horace Walpole

  Offending, Ambitious, Sublimity

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• It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Real, Brain

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Small Gods: (Discworld Novel 13)”, p.91, Random House

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• I first knew Laurie Lewis by her considerable reputation as a fiddle player and a writer of songs. When an opportunity came along to sing with her I seized it. Getting to know her as a singer and a person has been pure pleasure. Her voice is a rare combination of grit and grace, strength and delicacy. Her stories are always true.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Song, Opportunity, Player

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• Its, the gum tree, main appeal to me has been its combination of mightiness and delicacy - mighty in its strength of limb and delicate in the colouring of its covering. Then it has distinctive qualities; in fact I know of no other tree which is more decorative, both as regards the flow of its limbs and the patterns the bark makes on its main trunk. In all its stages the gum tree is extremely beautiful.

  Hans Heysen

  Beautiful, Nature, Tree

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• [Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.

  Horace Walpole

  Spirit, Inspired, Court

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• Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Landscape, Affluence, Finals

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• Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful landscape seems scarcely complete without it. There are no effects so fascinating as those produced by the reflexions in nature's living mirror, with their delicacy of form, ever fleeting and changing, and their subtle combinations of colour.

  William Montagu-Pollock

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Water

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