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Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and its true proportions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer. Samuel Johnson
Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all. Margaret Atwood
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most... George Sand
We think sometimes we're only drawn to the good, but we're actually drawn to the authentic. We like people who are real more than those who hide their true selves under layers of artificial niceties Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal... Jane Austen
George Eliot quote: "Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses..."
Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety. George Eliot
Barbra Streisand quote: "I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life."
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life. Barbra Streisand
Mercedes McCambridge quote: "The great people I've met always have time for the niceties."
The great people I've met always have time for the niceties. Mercedes McCambridge
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation. George Plimpton
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx
We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over. William Odom
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you. Flann O'Brien
Arthur Schopenhauer quote: "It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the..."
It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards. Arthur Schopenhauer

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