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When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things. ↗

— Edward Cocker

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The most precious things in speech are pauses. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it. ↗

— Arthur Berger

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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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