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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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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. – Mark Twain

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Habits
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If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging? – Mark Twain

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Integrity
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. – Mark Twain

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Rainbows
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It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Jewelry

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot

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Jewelry

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

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Jewelry

Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children – honored as the jewelry of God…. – Thomas De Quincey

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Jewelry

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We dont really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. Its a cultural thing, so maybe we dont need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isnt as nice here so theres no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles. – Denise Mina

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I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least — and it is commonly more than that — sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements. – Henry David Thoreau

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