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"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value."
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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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"Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls."
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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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"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."
Relationship
"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."
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"Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax."
Nature
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
Thought
"It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain."
Sacrifice
"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
Time
"To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them."
Time
"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."
Man
"Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think."
Art
"It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character."
Character
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