"Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world."
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"In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt the center of the gravity of the weight will stop beneath the center of its axle. No instrument devised by human ingenuity, which turns with its wheel, can remedy this effect. Oh, speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest. Go and take you place with the seekers after gold."
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"A gold standard is to the moochers and looters in government what sunlight and garlic are to vampires."
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"Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica."
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"Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising."
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"I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read."
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"Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay."
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"One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one."
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"All in green went my love of riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn."
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"Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me."
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"Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . ."
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"Why do they make things so complicated?" "So that those who have the responsibility for understanding can understand.," he said. "Imagine if everyone went around transforming lead into gold. Gold would lose its value." "It's those who are persistent, and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the Master Work."
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"Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece."
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"What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!"
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"Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread."
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"The plague of gold strikes far and near."
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"But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost, rendered worst than unavailing."
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"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
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"The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade."
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"If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold."
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