Quotes with gilded

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• A bestseller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

  Source: Afterthoughts

  ― Logan Pearsall Smith
  English writer (1865 - 1946)
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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

  ― Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The slippery tops of human state, the gilded pinnacles of fate.

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• bestseller
• perfection
• politeness
• ungraceful
• charitable
• unselfish

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