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In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath. -- Samuel Johnson
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. -- Victor Hugo
Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones. -- Neal Stephenson
The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary. -- Francis Alexander Durivage

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