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• It's hard not to like a man of many qualities, even if most of them are bad.
• As a rough rind sometimes covers the sweetest fruit, so a rough exterior often conceals a kindly and hearty nature.
  -- S. Smile...
• If you sell diamonds, you cannot expect to have many customers.
  But a diamond is a diamond even if there are no customers. -- Swami Prabhupada...
• There are many shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretio
  it is this, indeed, that gives a value to all the rest, which sets them to work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them....
• I may look calm, but beneath this cool exterior is a churning iceberg ready to explode.
• It was like spit-shining a car battery...
• It's like the old pie-in-the-face routine: it stops being funny when it starts being you.
  -- Stephen King, _The Stand_ (uncut)...
• This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.
  -- David Frost, British television journali...
• They must have the defects of their qualities. -- Balzac