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«Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.»
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Novelist) | Keywords: adorn, adorning, adorns, cage, gilt, infancy, roamed, roaming, roams, sceptre, seeks, shapes
«What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!»
Author: Mervyn Peake | Keywords: fatuous, gilt, knob, knobs, second hand, subserviently
«Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold»
Author: English Proverb | About: Ability | Keywords: gilt
«But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.»
Author: Gustave Flaubert (Novelist) | Keywords: disparage, disparaging, gilt, idols
«The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Cheating, World | Keywords: cheated, coin, farthing, farthings, gilt, gold coin, old woman, thenceforth
«And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted»
Author: William Shakespeare (Dramatist, Playwright, Poet) | Keywords: dusted, gilt, laud, lauded
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