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"Do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
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Clay"To get wealth and security by guile Is like one who pours water into a pot of unbaked clay."
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals. Most pure clay minerals are white or light-coloured, but natural clays show a variety of colours from impurities, such as a reddish or brownish colour from small amounts of iron oxide.
"Do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?"
"If they find some stain or blemish in a name of note, not grieving that their greatest are so small, inflate themselves with some insane delight, and judge all nature from her feet of clay."
"If we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything."
"Times wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure."
"This Great God, Like a mammy bending over her baby, Kneeled down in the dust Toiling over a lump of clay Till He shaped it in His own image."
"These look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds."