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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Joseph Joubert

Crafty as any Jesuit.

Our ideas, like pictures, are made up of lights and shadows.

Impetuous as a poet.

Merciless as ambition.

Words, like glass, darken whatever they do not help us to see.