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A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But as if in gruff reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room.

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Gregor would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but peaceful.

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive.
James Stockdale

Here was my own pet lunatic, the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with, talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson

I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.
Marisa Tomei

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends.
Bishop Robert South

My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
James Joyce

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.
Lin Yutang

Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron

The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
Zebulon Pike

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.
George Kennedy

You work on an idea, your first interpretation is very raw and you work it and you work it and it gets polished and polished. It gets to a certain level and then it comes down off that peak.
Kim Weston

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