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The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

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Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

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Peter Sellers was great to work with. A lovely man. A little bit crazy in that he - you know, as I say, it was hard. It was sort of balancing a very delicate spirit on a needle. You know, because you never know where he was going. ↗

— Goldie Hawn

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Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other. ↗

— David Hume

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One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness. ↗

— Miriam Beard

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Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. ↗

— Howard Staunton

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An opening statement is like a guide or a road map. It's a very delicate thing. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ↗

— Ovid

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I do have a delicate side. ↗

— Michelle Rodriguez

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When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break. ↗

— Henry Rollins

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