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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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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

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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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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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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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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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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

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Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

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What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

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Labour is priceless, not gold.

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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.

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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

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So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold.

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A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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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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