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Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of god.
-Thomas De Quincey
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Flowers That Are So Pathetic In Their

Thomas De Quincey
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of god.
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Flowers... that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of god only by them - when suddenly the voice of christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the hebrew throne, although founded by god himself, and pronounced solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
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I'm a big rings person...and bracelets...and earrings. i love all of it [laughs]. one time, i was getting off an airplane and i had been traveling for like a month in europe, and i came from the airplane right to my mom's house who i hadn't seen in awhile, and she looked at me and she goes, "is it possible to fit any more jewelry on you? is that actually possible?" and i looked down and, because when i travel i don't like to pack my jewelry so i end up wearing a ton of it, and i had just had everything on me. and i love buying jewelry when i travel - so there was a lot.
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