#gold

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

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Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not. ↗

— Kenny Rogers

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There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. ↗

— Will Carleton

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Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order. ↗