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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
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Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
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Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
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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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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly as he thinks.
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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.
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The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
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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?
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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
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You talk no more of that gay nation now,
Where men adore their wives, and woman's power
Draws reverence from a polished people's softness,
Their husbands' equals, and their lovers' queens;
Free without scandal; wise without restraint;
Their virtue due to nature, not to fear.Zara (1735) Act I, Sc. 1.
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