Acute Tone

Famous quotes containing the words acute and/or tone:

“I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)