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Women are pleasured treasures. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

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

— Roger Caras

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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ↗

— Henry Miller

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

— Confucius

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...it was my father who had taught me to love books for themselves, the smell of the vellum and paper, the rare authority of the pages. "Here, do you see this marvelous book, the skins of 182 sheep," he once pronounced as he slapped his hand down on the stamped leather cover boards. "The book is a flock, a jewel, a cemetery, a lantern, a garden, a piss pot; pigments ground of precious minerals, charred bone, lamp soot, rare plants and insects. Pigments formed at the corrosion of copper plates suspended above urine. ↗

— Regina O'Melveny

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