"The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem."
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"I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold."
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"The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained is not the same thing with the wages of honest toil. But, practically, he forgets what he has seen, for he has seen only the fact, not the principle, and goes into trade there, that is, buys a ticket in what commonly proves another lottery, where the fact is not so obvious."
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"Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting."
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"At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold."
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"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."
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"He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty."
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"I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away."
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"For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory."
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"The real yellow peril: Gold."
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"I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them."
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"Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes."
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"Find a pile of gold and sit on it."
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"In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver."
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"I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread."
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"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold."
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"So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost"
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"If we are given gold, would we not test it to determine it's value? If we doubted its genuineness - we would test it by fire...and so God with us."
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"Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally."
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"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of the day."
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