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Familiar Quotations

Sensitising

Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.–Barbara De Angelis

The wine of Arpad Haraszthy has a bouquet all its own. It tickles and titillates the palate. It gurgles as it slips down the alimentary canal. It warms the cockles of the heart, and it burns the sensitive lining of the stomach.–Ambrose Bierce

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.–Charles Horton Cooley

In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.–Emma Goldman

Marijuana is self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive, and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?–P. J. O'Rourke

A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.–Camille Paglia

We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in a generous sensitiveness to shame.–Plutarch

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.–Dan Quayle

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.–Percy Bysshe Shelley

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.–Patricia Meyer Spacks

• Prefaceviii
• Familiar Quotations1
• Sensitising1
• Sensitising – "Delicate"2
• Sensitising – "Feeling"2
• Sensitising – "Gentle"3
• Sensitising – "Painful"3
• Sensitising – "Sore"3
• Use in Literature4
• Sensitising4
• Sensitising – "Alive"14
• Sensitising – "Appear"14
• Sensitising – "Arts"16
• Sensitising – "Artist"16
• Sensitising – "Aware"17
• Sensitising – "Bad"17
• Sensitising – "Bear"18
• Sensitising – "Beauty"18
• Sensitising – "Being"19
• Sensitising – "Bitterly"21
• Sensitising – "Called"21
• Sensitising – "Case"22
• Sensitising – "Change"22
• Sensitising – "Character"24
• Sensitising – "Children"24
• Sensitising – "Coloured"26
• Sensitising – "Came"27
• Sensitising – "Conscience"28
• Sensitising – "Creatures"29
• Sensitising – "Criticism"29
• Sensitising – "Days"30
• Sensitising – "Difference"31
• Sensitising – "Done"32
• Sensitising – "Doubt"32
• Sensitising – "Ear"33
• Sensitising – "Effect"34
• Sensitising – "Everything"35
• Sensitising – "Expression"35
• Sensitising – "Eyes"36
• Sensitising – "Far"37
• Sensitising – "Father"38
• Sensitising – "Fear"39
• Sensitising – "Feeling"40
• Sensitising – "Felt"40
• Sensitising – "Few"42
• Sensitising – "Fingers"42
• Sensitising – "Flowers"43
• Sensitising – "Forms"44
• Sensitising – "Found"45
• Sensitising – "Friend"46
• Sensitising – "Girl"46
• Sensitising – "Great"47
• Sensitising – "Hair"49
• Sensitising – "Hand"50
• Sensitising – "Happiness"50
• Sensitising – "Having"51
• Sensitising – "Head"52
• Sensitising – "Heart"53
• Sensitising – "Herself"55
• Sensitising – "Human"55
• Sensitising – "Imaginative"56
• Sensitising – "Impressions"57
• Sensitising – "Individual"58
• Sensitising – "Influences"59
• Sensitising – "Intellectual"60
• Sensitising – "Interesting"61
• Sensitising – "Keeping"61
• Sensitising – "Kindly"62
• Sensitising – "Leaves"63
• Sensitising – "Life"64
• Sensitising – "Lip"65
• Sensitising – "Little"66
• Sensitising – "Looked"68
• Sensitising – "Love"70
• Sensitising – "Make"71
• Sensitising – "Man"73
• Sensitising – "Manner"77
• Sensitising – "Matter"78
• Sensitising – "Mean"79
• Sensitising – "Mind"80
• Sensitising – "Miss"82
• Sensitising – "Modern"83
• Sensitising – "Moral"83
• Sensitising – "Mother"84
• Sensitising – "Mouth"85
• Sensitising – "Music"85
• Sensitising – "Myself"86
• Sensitising – "Nature"86
• Sensitising – "Need"91
• Sensitising – "Nerves"92
• Sensitising – "Noble"93
• Sensitising – "Nothings"94
• Sensitising – "Old"95
• Sensitising – "Once"96
• Sensitising – "Paper"96
• Sensitising – "Part"97
• Sensitising – "Passed"99
• Sensitising – "Passions"99
• Sensitising – "Peculiar"100
• Sensitising – "People"101
• Sensitising – "Persons"102
• Sensitising – "Place"104
• Sensitising – "Plant"105
• Sensitising – "Pleasure"105
• Sensitising – "Poet"106
• Sensitising – "Points"106
• Sensitising – "Poor"108
• Sensitising – "Possible"108
• Sensitising – "Present"109
• Sensitising – "Pride"109
• Sensitising – "Proud"110
• Sensitising – "Quick"112
• Sensitising – "Reader"112
• Sensitising – "Reason"113
• Sensitising – "Room"114
• Sensitising – "Secrecy"114
• Sensitising – "Shows"115
• Sensitising – "Skin"116
• Sensitising – "Sooner"116
• Sensitising – "Soul"117
• Sensitising – "Sound"118
• Sensitising – "Speak"119
• Sensitising – "Spirit"120
• Sensitising – "State"121
• Sensitising – "Strange"121
• Sensitising – "Strong"122
• Sensitising – "Subject"123
• Sensitising – "Surfaces"124
• Sensitising – "Temperament"124
• Sensitising – "Tenderness"125
• Sensitising – "Things"127
• Sensitising – "Thought"129
• Sensitising – "Thus"131
• Sensitising – "Times"132
• Sensitising – "Tone"132
• Sensitising – "Touch"133
• Sensitising – "Tried"134
• Sensitising – "True"134
• Sensitising – "Truth"135
• Sensitising – "Understands"136
• Sensitising – "Way"136
• Sensitising – "Woman"138
• Sensitising – "Wonder"140
• Sensitising – "Words"140
• Sensitising – "Work"141
• Sensitising – "World"141
• Sensitising – "Years"142
• Sensitising – "Young"143
• Sensitising – "Youthful"144
• Nonfiction Usage146
• Journalism Usage146
• Patent Usage146
• Bibliographic Usage147
• Encyclopedic Usage151
• Lexicographic Usage161
• Index273