A lovely summary of the ineffable subtleties of human beings. Of whom would you say, in your acquaintance, that they had a ‘finely-touched spirit’?

‘Her finely-touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible.’

 

Source: George Eliot, Middlemarch (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 896

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