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"I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude."
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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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"My vanity was flattered by having been mistaken for our revered sovereign. I ordered a banquet to be got ready for the following evening, under the trees before my house, and invited the whole town."
Vanity
"This man, although he appeared so humble and embarrassed in his air and manners, and passed so unheeded, had inspired me with such a feeling of horror by the unearthly paleness of his countenance, from which I could not avert my eyes, that I was unable longer to endure it."
Fear
"After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze."
Weariness
"A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan."
Wisdom
"On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom."
Wealth
"In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes."
Character
"Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow."
Soul
"When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation."
Art
"The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter."
Humility
"Of what use were wings to a man fast bound in chains of iron?"
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