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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Deference

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one’s finger.

Shenstone.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Shenstone.