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"If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world."
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"I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch."
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"You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful."
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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part of the state of New York, and along with the book an enormous pair of gold spectacles!"
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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."
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"Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired."
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"Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows."
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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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"Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us."
Education
"I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do."
Life
"Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset."
Heart
"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man
"Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home."
Home
"My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it."
Family
"I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself."
Memory
"Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more."
Nothing
"The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it."
Needs
"The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him."
Work
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