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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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"O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!"

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"Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths."

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"Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities."

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"Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise."

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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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"You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold."

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"Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside."

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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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"There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold."

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