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Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. — Fanny Burney
It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call… — Jane Austen
Professor Lyall, cursing his Alpha for departing so precipitously, balled up the piece of paper and, after minor consideration for the delicacy of the information… — Gail Carriger
A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to… — Agnes Repplier
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ...… — William S. Burroughs
I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade women to endeavor to acquire strength, both… — Mary Wollstonecraft
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… — Terry Pratchett
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… — Mary Wollstonecraft
Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often… — John Adams
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… — C.S. Lewis
To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's. — Jean Paul
The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement… — W. Somerset Maugham
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power. — William Hazlitt
We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But… — Reuben Archer Torrey
I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death.… — Wallace Stegner
You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage. — Lindsay Duncan
Without a doubt, one of my favorite American ingredients is blue crabs, a true delicacy! And a great value, I think. — Jose Andres Puerta
Orientals, and the Malays in particular, are a sensitive people: delicacy of sentiment is predominant with them. — Jose Rizal
The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. — Naomi Klein
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are… — Edwin Booth
He was a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train. — Unknown Author
I like two things in women: their software and their hardware ; i.e. delicacy and good look. — Mohammad MUSTAFA

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