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Famous quotes containing the word jewel:

    They would probably help, in some trying time to come, to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom.
    Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)

    As a jewel of gold in a swine’s snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
    Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 11:22.

    Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
    Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)