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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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"Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince."
May
"Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry."
Son
"All my possessions for a moment of time."
Time
"I pray to God that I shall not live one hour after I have thought of using deception."
God
"Where minds differ and opinions swerve there is scant a friend in that company."
Friendship
"The word must is not to be used to princes."
Word
"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me."
Death
"There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible."
Country
"I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!"
Ireland
"Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dangers to their states."
Death
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