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• The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own organizations, read women as easily and accurately as women read each other. They are alert to detect and interpret those smallest trifles in tone, expression, and bearing, which betray the real mood far more unmistakably than more obvious signs.

  Edward Bellamy

  Real, Men, Expression

  "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process". Book by Edward Bellamy. Chapter 4, 1880.

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• How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

  John Keats

  Self, Mad, Imagination

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters of John Keats”

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• When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspiring, Pain, Real

  "35 Maya Angelou Quotes That Changed My Life" by J.N. Salters, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 29, 2014.

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• Colon has always thought that heroes had some special kind of clockwork that made them go out and die famously for god, country and apple pie, or whatever particular delicacy their mother made. It had never occurred to him that they might do it because they'd get yelled at if they didn't.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mother, Country, Hero

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Jingo: (Discworld Novel 21)”, p.175, Random House

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• My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

  Bobby Moynihan

  Mom, Pie, People

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• One could not live without delicacy, but when / I think of love I think of the big, clumsy-looking / hands of my grandmother, each knuckle a knob.

  Mona Van Duyn

  Grandmother, Thinking, Hands

  Mona Van Duyn (1990). “Near changes: poems”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• If a picture, which is but a mute representation of an object, can give such pleasure, what cannot letters inspire? They have souls; they can speak; they have in them all that force which expresses the transports of the heart; they have all the fire of our passions, they can raise them as much as if the persons themselves were present; they have all the tenderness and the delicacy of speech, and sometimes a boldness of expression even beyond it.

  Heloise

  Passion, Heart, Fire

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• Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Spirit, Sin, Spoil

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• Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling.

  Isaac Asimov

  Communication, Men, Mind

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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• Whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which out seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in doubtful case. ... But it is not on slight implication and vague conjecture that the legislature is to be pronounced to have transcended its powers, and its acts to be considered as void. The opposition between the Constitution and the law should be such that the judge feels a clear and strong conviction of their incompatibility with each other.

  John Marshall

  Strong, Law, Judging

  Fletcher v. Peck, 10 U.S. (6 Cranch) 87, 128, 1810.

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• There are proud men of so much delicacy that it almost conceals their pride, and perfectly excuses it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Pride, Men, Proud

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.201

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• Flowers and fruit are never combined in one place: it is impossible that teeth and delicacies should exist simultaneously.

  Saib Tabrizi

  Flower, Teeth, Fruit

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• True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Expression, Generosity, May

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• Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery.

  David Hume

  Passion, Taste, Spheres

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.578, Delphi Classics

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• A man wasn't equal to an animal, not one particle of him. Human life was stinking corrupt, and meanwhile there were beautiful creatures who lived with delicacy on the earth without doing anyone harm. "We should be dying." the judge almost wept.

  Kiran Desai

  Beautiful, Men, Animal

  FaceBook post by Kiran Desai from Dec 04, 2011

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• She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.

  Walter Pater

  Mother, Rocks, Hands

  Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)

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• Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

  Janette Rallison

  People, House, Trying

  Janette Rallison (2009). “All's Fair in Love, War and High School”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.

  Steve Martin

  Three, Obsession, Categories

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• Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.

  Catharine Beecher

  Food, America, Sky

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.190, Applewood Books

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• It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

  Herodotus

  Country, Hero, Men

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• But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.

  Robert Bly

  Party, Heaven, Emotion

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.167, W. W. Norton & Company

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