"With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious."
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"With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious."
"Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness."
"America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement."
"There are certain tribes in the middle Sepik that eat raw bat. A certain kind of raw bat is a delicacy."