Elsa Peretti quote ✍️

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A big diamond necklace is nouveau riche, really. People who have wealth a long time don't wear such things.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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