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Quote:Men always want to be a woman's first love; women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance.[Oscar Wilde]

Quote:There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.[Henry Thoreau]



Definitions of: subtle

Definition: Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe.

Definition: Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem.

Definition: Characterized by refinement and niceness in drawing distinctions; nicely discriminating; -- said of persons; as, a subtle logician; refined; tenuous; sinuous; insinuating; hence, penetrative or pervasive; -- said of the mind; its faculties, or its operations; as, a subtle intellect; a subtle imagination; a subtle process of thought; also, difficult of apprehension; elusive.

Definition: Smooth and deceptive.

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