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Punctilious abyss, the yawn of space Come once a day to suffocate the sight. -- Allen Tate
If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest. -- Xun Zi
We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war. -- Ann Coulter
Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals. -- Herman Melville
Where are the dogs going? you people who pay so little attention ask. They are going about their business. And they are very punctilious, without wallets, notes, and without briefcases. -- Charles Baudelaire
Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
Not every collision, not every punctilious trajectory by which billiard-ball complexes arrive at their calculable meeting places lead to reaction. ... Men (and women) are not as different from molecules as they think. -- Roald Hoffmann
His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone as punctilious as himself the correspondence ended only with death. -- Evelyn Waugh

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