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The line 'The world is your oyester' essentially means that if you have a lot of money, you can have anything you want. The proverb first appears in Shakespeare's play 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1600).'
Falstaff: I will not lend thee a penny.
Pistol: Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
Act II, Scene II.
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" (1996) by Gregory Y. Titelman (Random House, New York, 1996).
That comes from very old writings, probably from the Caballe Sanscript (India) or even older. It was the word of one of the gods who ruled our lands in the dawn of time.
I remember reading it but can't exactly place it.
A pearl of wisdom told us.
(joke)
I always thought it meant that WE are the "pearl". Life is hard, it shapes us, and everyone is a pearl in his or her own way.
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