Quotations
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delicacies
«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
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conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
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accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.»
Author: Joyce Wadler
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Law and lawyers
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avenue, avenues, delicacies, delicacy, express train, Lexington, operated
«She has no charm, delicacy or taste. She's just an arrogant little tail-twitcher who's learned to throw sex in your face.»
«The persons of their world lived in an atmosphere of faint implications and pale delicacies, and the fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to the young man to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.»
Author: Edith Wharton
(Novelist)
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delicacies, implication, implications, their world, The Young Man
«It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
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attentions, delicacies, delicacy, flattering, impulse, pleasing, previous, proceed
«For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.»
«The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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Quotations
| Keywords:
delicacies, extract, quotation
«HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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appetite, article, cage, catholicity, chiefly, delicacies, delicacy, dicky, esteemed, fowl, hog, illustrate, illustrated, illustrating, in chorus, in full, Jews, melody, remarkable, resemblance, respected, Rockefeller, scientific name, serving, songster, The Cage, the Chorus
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs