"Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Envelopes Quotes

“This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.”
“I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

Source : Michel Foucault, Jeremy Carrette (2013). “Religion and Culture”, p.13, Routledge
“Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.”
“Tender, too, is the silence of human feet. You have but to pass a season amongst the barefooted to find that man, who, shod, makes so much ado, is naturally as silent as snow.”

Source : Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.452, eBookIt.com
“I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous.”

Source : Source: blog.yupnet.org
“I lied to you about a lot of things....but I meant every apology.”
“In a guerrilla war, the line between legitimate and illegitimate killing is blurred. The policies of free-fire zones, in which a soldier is permitted to shoot at any human target, armed or unarmed, further confuse the fighting man's moral senses.”

Source : Philip Caputo (2014). “A Rumor of War”, p.327, Macmillan

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