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All the luminous the coloured spectacles which the world in the immensity of space can offer us, nature has produced in miniature amongst precious stones. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, translated from French

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[T]he sapphire… is a concentration of azure. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875, translated from French

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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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Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all. – Mark Twain

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