#treasure

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense. ↗

— Robert Walpole

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I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#love #treasure #anger

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#deceiving #deception #emotional-pain #treasuresure #life

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks. ↗

— Roger Caras

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Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be allowed to come back. But that doesn't mean that they all should live in exactly the same spot that they lived before. ↗

— Ed McMahon

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I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#behind #great #i #learnt #little

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. ↗

— Confucius

#loyalty #precious-things #treasures #value #virtues