“Fortune is like glass—the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.”
Fortuna vitrea est: tum cum splendet frangitur.
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 280
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“Broken glass. It's just like glitter, isn't it?”
NME (New Musical Express), November 2005
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