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Gold Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
- Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
- The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.
- Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply…
- Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
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