"A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns."
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
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"Modest humility is beauty's crown."
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"To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine."
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"Our holy lives must win a new world's crown."
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"It is the Americans who have managed to crown minced beef as hamburger, and to send it round the world so that even the fussy French have taken to le boeuf hache, le hambourgaire."
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"All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in motley are more amusing than ones with crowns."
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"Contentment gives a crown, where fortune hath denied it."
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"When the leaves turn brown, I'll be wearing the batting crown"
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"Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head."
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"Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory."
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"No one who wears a crown is ever safe."
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"A crown should not sit easy on the head."
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"ur struggle is not with some monarch named George who inherited the crown - although it often seems that way."
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"Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns."
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"Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head"
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"The Royall Crowne cures not the head-ach. [The Royal Crown cures not the headache.]"
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"For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth."
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"Forget the haters! They just want the crown!"
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"The last act crowns the play."
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