“Cold and sharp in the edges, full of fire and warm under the surface”

Quoted in Peter Evans, Ari: Life and Times of Aristotle Socrates Onassis, (1978) p. 299
Comparing Jackie Kennedy to a diamond

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Greek shipping magnate 1906–1975

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