"Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally……" — Fanny Burney

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• It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing… — Jane Austen
• Water, whether still or in motion, has so great an attraction for the lover of nature, that the most beautiful… — Unknown Author
• There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;… — Sun Tzu
• It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds.… — Ivan Illich
• I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their… — Samuel Johnson
• Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own… — Rajneesh
• Distrust even Mathematics; albeit so sublime and highly perfected, we have here a machine of such delicacy it can only… — Anatole France
• To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening,… — Charles Dickens
• Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
• A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system… — Unknown Author
• You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the… — Unknown Author
• The difference between a gourmet and a gourmand we take to be this: a gourmet is he who selects, for… — Unknown Author

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