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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

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

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Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

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When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?

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

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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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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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

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To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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

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All that glitters is not gold.

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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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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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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

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Gold were as good as twenty orators.

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