“She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“She's the ornament of her sex.”
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Charles Dickens
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Source: The Old Curiosity Shop (1841), Ch. 5
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