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

Richelieu

A truly virtuous person is like good metal,—the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved. Wrongs may well try him and touch him, but they cannot imprint on him any false stamp.