Rudeness, abruptness, gory tales of blood and thunder, and coarse language usually show up the greenhorn or counterfeit, and certainly the ill-bred. "The bravest are the tenderest; the gentlest are the daring. - Kenneth W. Estes
Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. - William Drummond