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- When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by… — Horace
- A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo… — Maya Angelou
- Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Unknown Author
- Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility… — James McCosh
- I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous… — George Plimpton
- The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety. — Samuel Johnson
- It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in… — Flann O'Brien
- The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel,… — Ambrose
- A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock
- There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no… — Jane Austen
- It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite… — Chuck Palahniuk
- The average human being spends three years of life going to the toilet, though the average human being with no physical toilet… — Rose George