C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Fastidiousness
Fastidiousness is the envelope of indelicacy.
Haliburton.
Fastidiousness is only another word for egotism; and all men who know not where to look for truth save in the narrow well of self will find their own image at the bottom, and mistake it for what they are seeking.
Lowell.