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Ch. 17: Place of Diamonds in Literature

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DIAMONDS IN LITERATURE 413
poetry and romance, the beauty of the wonderful crys­tal, the exquisite adaptation of art to Nature's require­ments in the cutting and polishing of it, and degrade the companion of royalty and beauty to the sign of dollars.
And because the diamond-advertising literature of the day reeks so with the spirit of the bargain counter, and the gem flashes so commonly from the unclean hands of politics, vice and graft, the noblest product of Nature's gigantic laboratory is by association, oftentimes made vulgar.
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