"A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow."
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"There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself."
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"How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?"
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"[W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues."
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"[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers."
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"We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life."
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"I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow."
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"This is the room where Jezebel frescoed her eyelids with history's tragic glitter"
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"What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?" The marquis sighed. And then he twisted his lips up into a smile, and with a glitter of his old self, he replied, "Live long enough, Old Bailey, and you can find out for yourself."
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"I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset."
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