#diamonds

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed, the night to come. — Excerpt from the poem “The Mercy ↗

— Philip Levine

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I have to report to those of you who think diamonds make a difference that I cannot tell what it is. Seriously, as you all know, they make no difference at all. They just make the flute look a little more special. ↗

— James Galway

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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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I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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