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A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. – Chinese Proverb
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. – Confucius
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. – Leighton
All wit and fancy, like a diamond, The more exact and curious ?tis ground, Is forced for every carat to abate As much of value as it wants in weight. – Butler
Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. – Author Unknown
Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn’t matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Looking for a gem, we are sometimes dumb enough to try to hold on to a lump of coal, convinced that it will turn into a diamond in our lifetime... but all it does it get sht all over you until you burn it and use the energy for something else. – Ingrid Weir*
The only difference between a genius and one of common capacity is that the former anticipates and explores what the latter accidentally hits upon; but even the man of genius himself more frequently employs the advantages that chance presents him; it is the lapidary who gives value to the diamond which the peasant has dug up without knowing its value. – Abbe Guillaume Raynal
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkenss, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds, a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. – Jim Bishop

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