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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. - T

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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teacher
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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. – William Makepeace Thackeray

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Jewelry
[T]he diamond and other precious stones are focuses of light, and essences of colour which seem expressly created to ornament on a small scale the human body with all the splendours which adorn the universe on a large scale. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875

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Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Chinese Proverb

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Jewelry

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. – Mae West

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Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends. – Anna Deavere Smith

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As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the governments role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital. – Donald Evans

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