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• The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.

  Susanna Moodie

  Country, Native American, Men

  Susanna Moodie (1852). “Roughing it in the Bush: Or, Life in Canada”, p.11, London : R. Bentley

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• There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

  Philip Sidney

  Self, Looks, Causes

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

  Martial

  Bird, Opinion, Eating

  Martial (1904). “The Epigrams of Martial”

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• The man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Angel, Men

  Diary entry regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, in July 1924. "Letters of C. S. Lewis". Book edited by W. H. Lewis, p. 97, 1966.

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• America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Coarse, Refinement

  "Charles Dickens". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1906.

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• The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Father, Order, Temples

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 5,

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• The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Art, Inspiration, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.

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• A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to be aware of the importance of being aware. Be aware of your senses and use them: So often we are distracted and unconscious of the riches our senses can pour into our lives. We eat food without tasting it, listen to music without hearing it, smell without experiencing the pungency of odors and the delicacy of perfumes, touch without feeling the grain or texture, and see without appreciating the beauty around us.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Smell, Appreciate, Feelings

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• Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Real, Sorrow, Rays

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• Chestnuts are delicacies for princes and a lusty and masculine food for rusticks, and able to make women well-complexioned.

  John Evelyn

  Nuts, Able, Masculine

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• It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

  Philip Sidney

  Wish, Womanhood

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.74

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• If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Men, Self

  Charles Dickens (1849). “Barnaby Rudge ... With a frontispiece drawn by Hablot Knight Browne, etc”, p.6

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• I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness.

  Steve Almond

  Heart, Men, Soul

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• Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Sometimes, Should

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”, p.117

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• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

  Christina Stead

  Struggle, Passion, Intelligent

  Christina Stead (1992). “A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973”, Angus & Robertson Publishers

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• I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

  George Washington

  Men, Law, Wish

  George Washington (1837). “Speeches and messages to Congress, proclamations, and addresses”, p.169

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• Great tact and delicacy is necessary for the care of the mind of a child from three to six years, and an adult can have very little of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Years, Mind

  Maria Montessori (2013). “The Absorbent Mind”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The mirror angled at the foot of my bed. Twisted reflections bouncing off into infinity. Obsessed with my image, the myriad of distored figurines who danced in front of me in rapid succession, every feature exaggerated, every slight imperfection a new delicacy.

  Lydia Lunch

  Reflection, Glasses, Mirrors

  Lydia Lunch (1997). “Paradoxia: A Predator's Diary”, Creation Publishing Group

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• Are not beauty and delicacy the same?

  E. M. Forster

  Room With A View

  Gabrielle Vigot, Monica Corwin, Pan Zador, Coco Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Literary Love: 5 Wild and Wanton Classics”, p.1082, Simon and Schuster

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• Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.

  Charles Lamb

  Luxury, Tea, Sugar

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.120

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• Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth!  I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him.  Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning.  But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

  Jim Elliot

  Stars, Children, Eye

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• Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sex, Want, Cleanliness

  Thomas Jefferson, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (1952). “21 May 1781 to 1 March 1784”

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.

  Alan Coren

  Country, Bread, World

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• In a bouquet of mixed roses, most people can distinguish at a glance the delicacy of a tea rose from the voluptuousness of a cabbage rose, but how many could so readily differentiate between the tea rose's scent of freshly harvested tea and the spicy, honeylike, rich floral scent of the cabbage?

  Mandy Aftel

  Rose, People, Tea

  Mandy Aftel (2011). “Essence and Alchemy: A Book of Perfume”, p.15, North Point Press

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