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But a distinct majority of those surveyed failed even to recognize the expressions "New wine into old bottles" (Mark 2:22); "The price of wisdom is above rubies" (Job 28:18); "Put not your trust in princes" (Psalms 146:3); "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?"
These are never expressions of wild genius, like the beating heart made of rubies that Dali designed.
I came home drained and exhausted from thinking about how to adjust my diadem and reassemble my lavaliere, and unable to choose between the Japanese-ribbon-knot brooch with the rubies and the Gothic-style double-circle brooch with the sapphires.
Guides will tell you that its 255 enameled panels were encrusted by master Venetian and Byzantine artisans with close to 2,000 precious stones, including pearls, garnets, sapphires, emeralds and rubies.
Dreamers still dig for the gold doubloons, emeralds, rubies, and diamonds that Captain William Kidd, lovable villain of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, is said to have buried here.