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Since that time Greece has been famed for the worksmanship of this most precious metal and you can still find many high class jewelry stores in Athens producing excellent quality items.
Perhaps one day we shall find an Etruscan library, buried deep in the Italian countryside; but for the present, we have to make do with what we have, which is precious little.
My own Lordly throne so carefully hewnOf precious woods & polished by the sweat of men
He can get a little precious, though, and his constant musing about fate can get repetitive, less like Leonard Cohen and more like John Mellencamp, with his message that "life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone."
Chatterbox always suspected that Democrats who focus compulsively on the income charts (ex-Labor Secretary Robert Reich, for one) would be all too willing to trade off America's precious social equality for a minor increase in income equality and prosperity.