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PEARLS
[ Also see Jewels Oysters ]

The February born will find
  Sincerity and peace of mind;
    Freedom from passion and from care,
      If they the Pearl (also green Amethyst) will wear.
      - Unattributed Author, February,
        in "Notes and Queries", May 11, 1889, p. 371

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls;
  Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
      - Bible, Matthew (ch. XIII, v. 45-46)

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell,
  And may be found too in an oyster shell.
      - John Bunyan, Apology for his Book (l. 89)

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.
      - George Chapman, An Humorous Day's Mirth

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
  [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
      - Jean de la Bruyere, Les Caracteres (XII)

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