Famous quotes containing the word precious:
“My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not ... a fairy- land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheartand I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!”
—Martin Bormann (19001945)
“What have I to give you back, whose worth
May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Each body has its art, its precious prescribed
Pose, that even in passions droll contortions, waltzes,
Or push of pain or when a grief has stabbed,
Or hatred hacked is its, and nothing elses.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)
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