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Ornament Quotes

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.