"Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe."
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"Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold."
"Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal."
"The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold."
"The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers."
"These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."
"It was the easiest thing in the world for Arya to step up behind him and stab him. “Is there gold hidden in the village?” she shouted as she drove the blade up through his back. “Is there silver? Gems?” She stabbed twice more. “Is there food? Where is Lord Beric?” She was on top of him by then, still stabbing. “Where did he go? How many men were with him? How many knights? How many bowmen? How many, how many, how many, how many, how many, how many? is there gold in the village?"
"Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold."
"I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters."
"God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper."
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal."
"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine."
"It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not."
"In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver."
"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."
"I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim."
"Unknown Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold."
"To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold."
"Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal."
"A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts."