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Richard Burton

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."

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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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"Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen."

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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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"We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part."

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"I've spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold."

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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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"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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"Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine."

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"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."
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"When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk."
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