"I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold"
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"Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!"
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"It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it."
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"A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold."
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"Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female."
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"I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine."
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"When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver."
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"Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?... This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench."
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"When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business."
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"I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk."
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"If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver."
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"Gold makes the ugly beautiful."
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"Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold."
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"Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson."
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"Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead."
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"When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four different events and there was a lot to it."
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"The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man."
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"I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold."
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"Nature's first green is gold."
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"Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli."
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