"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award."
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"Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear."
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"That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do."
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"A good name is better than bags of gold."
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"All is not gold that glisters."
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"Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry."
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"Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue."
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"May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ."
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"Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies."
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"The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty."
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"We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity."
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"A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft."
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"Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor."
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"The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty."
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"We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection."
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"If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself."
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"We alone can devalue gold by not caring if it falls or rises in the marketplace. Wherever there is gold there is a chain, you know, and if your chain is gold so much the worse for you."
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"All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told."
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"Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."
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