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• Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face.
• There were lines on the mirror, lines on her face. -- The Eagle
• The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
  -- Claude le Petite...
• Silver and gold make even pigs seem clean.
• The soldier came knocking upon the queen's door He said, "I am not fighting for you anymore" The queen knew she had seen his face someplace before And slowly she let him inside.
  He said, "I see you now, and you're so very young But I've seen more battles lost than I have battles won And I have this intuition that it's all for your fun And now will you tell me why?...
• That's a smug aura of respectability you see in a mirror?