Delicacy

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      • Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.
        • Marguerite de Valois
      • Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
      • An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.
      • True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.
      • Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.
        • Degerando
      • Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.
      • Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.
        • Achilles Poincelot
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