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"Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it."
"All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods."
"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
"Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."
"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
"Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold."
"Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."
"Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold."
"I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold."
"Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor."
"It is a terrible situation when the Government, to insure the National Wealth, must go in debt and submit to ruinous interest charges, at the hands of men, who control the fictitious value of gold. Interest is the invention of Satan."
"Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?"
"Nothing gold can stay."
"But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?"
"I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools."
"The primary reason I'm in real estate, oil, gold, and silver is because the U.S. dollar has become the peso the world. It's becoming more and more worthless as the U.S. is the world's biggest debtor nation."
"This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away."
"I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them."
"You know, I don’t get why Fred and George only got three O.W.L.s each,” said Harry, watching as Fred, George, and Lee collected gold from the eager crowd. “They really know their stuff. . . .” “Oh, they only know flashy stuff that’s no real use to anyone,” said Hermione disparagingly. “No real use?” said Ron in a strained voice. “Hermione, they’ve got about twenty-six Galleons already. . . ."
"What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver."
