Famous quotes containing the word precious:
“A good name is better than precious ointment.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes, 7:1.
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Times precious chronic invalid,
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“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)
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