Quote by Mark Twain
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand

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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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. – Mark Twain

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The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. On Lohengrin – Mark Twain

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Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. – Juvenal

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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. – Lord Chesterfield

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

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Jewelry

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India. – Henry Brooke

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