"Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most."
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"Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism."
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"Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love"
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"Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!"
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"What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths."
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"Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?"
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"But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill."
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"Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it."
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"Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day."
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"The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead."
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"Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick."
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"Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told."
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"Hee that labours and thrives spins gold."
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"I don't think anyone has ever really been able to marry tech, fashion, and this concept that sustainable material, up-cycled material can be luxurious. And nothing is more luxurious than gold, right? Gold is luxurious because it's gold, post-consumer or virgin. Whatever it is, it's just gold."
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"It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid."
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"Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in 88. Only then was I ready to turn professional."
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"Trust is earned. Like gold."
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"Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless."
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"Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities."
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"We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners."
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