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«Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate»
«I love a finished speaker, I really, truly do I don't mean one who's polished, I just mean one who's through»
«Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends»
«My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire»
«Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.»
«Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood: / That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace: / That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets: / That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.»
Author: Bible
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affording, be full, bring forth, complaining, daughters, deliver, Deliver Me, garner, garnering, garners, Grown up, hand to mouth, labour, oxen, palace, plants, polished, right-handed, right hand, similitude, street corner
«Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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civil order, Civil society, Corinthian, graceful, nobility, ornament, polished
«Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also for its intrinsic value; but most prized when polished»
«It must be owned, that the Graces do not seem to be natives of Great Britain; and I doubt, the best of us here have more of rough than polished diamond.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
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diamond, Great Britain, polished, the Graces
«I would not enter on my list of friends / (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, / Yet wanting sensibility) the man / Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.»
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