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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the whole.
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
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How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local café to the speech at a formal dinner.
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