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Culture is one thing and varnish is another. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more. -- Henry David Thoreau
Drink whatever you like, just so long as it coordinates with your nail varnish. -- Victoria Beckham
Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces. -- William Shakespeare
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. -- Edward Hopper
Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish. -- C.P. Snow
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself. -- Charles Dickens
A classic is like a hidden treasure. Its core is buried under so many layers of varnish that it can be reached only by patience and infiltration. -- Jean-Louis Barrault
I do not want to see a society where, should I ever have any, my granddaughters have their fingernails pulled out because they are wearing nail varnish. -- John Rhys-Davies
With sharpen'd sight pale Antiquaries pore, Th' inscription value, but the rust adore. This the blue varnish, that the green endears; The sacred rust of twice ten hundred years. -- Alexander Pope
This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish. -- Judith Thurman
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door; The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay,- A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. -- Oliver Goldsmith

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