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"Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity."
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"Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current."
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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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"Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing."
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"The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint."
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"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at."
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"Gold all is not that doth golden seem."
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"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
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"The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal."
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"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods."
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"I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt."
Flying
"All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe."
Family
"Did they preach one thing and practice another, these men of God?"
Man
"When I was 2, we moved into an imposing country mansion 8 miles west of Cardiff, Wales."
Nation
"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
"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."
Life
"I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible."
Old
"Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever."
Childhood
"All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely."
Life
"The Bristol Channel was always my guide, and I was always able to draw an imaginary line from my bed to our house over in Wales. It was a great comfort."
Childhood
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