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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.»
«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!»
«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.»
«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»
«And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted»