#diamond

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. ↗

— Confucius

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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. ↗

— William Congreve

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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands. ↗

— Lionel Hampton

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Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs. ↗

— Malcolm Forbes

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

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Big girls need big diamonds. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#diamonds #need

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i