"The proof of gold is fire."
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"Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold."
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"A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine."
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"My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe"
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"Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it."
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"Opportunities come infrequently. When it rains gold, put out the bucket, not the thimble."
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"Gold were as good as twenty orators."
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"It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow."
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"When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it."
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"Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold."
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"All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose."
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"Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold."
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"An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes."
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"Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured."
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"If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis."
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"Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold."
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"That is gold which is worth gold."
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"As his colleagues have noted in their tribute to him, it was typical of Leo Ryan's concern for his constituents that he would investigate personally the rumors of mistreatment in Jonestown that reportedly affected so many from his district. Leo Ryan is the 88th recipient of a Congressional Gold Medal and only the 4th Member of Congress to receive this high honor from his colleagues."
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"It is rare that we use our thinking faculty as resolutely as an irishman his spade. To please our friends and relatives we turn out our silver ore in cartloads, while we neglect to workour mines of gold known only to ourselves far up in the Sierras, where we pulled up a bush in our mountain walk, and saw the glittering treasure. Let us return thither. Let it be the price of our freedom to make that known."
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"There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares."
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