I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much...
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Henry David Thoreau
I will wait for you until the gold from the sun dwindles away.
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H.S. Crow
Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.
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George R.r. Martin
Gold is the corpse of value...
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Neal Stephenson
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
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Charles Dickens
More Quotes By W. J. Bryan
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns - you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!
