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«The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear»
«The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.»
«Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen»
«What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?»
«Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.»
Author: Lyn Yutang | About: Society | Keywords: polished
«The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere | Keywords: polished
«Society is no one polished horde, Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and the Bored»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Society | Keywords: bores, horde, hordes, polished