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"Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence."
"Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust."
"Although I do not care for the slogan "art for art's sake", there can be no question that what makes a work of fiction safe from larvae and rust is not its social importance but its art, only its art."
"Worry... is rust upon the blade."
"Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul"
"But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust."
"I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?"
"The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court."
"The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated."
"I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon."
"Solitude may rust your words."
"Minds are like swords, I do fear. The old ones go to rust."
"It's easy, almost comforting, to dismiss Trumpism as the cry of laid-off men in rust-belt states shaking their wrinkled fists at the juggernaut of modernity."
