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Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

Mike Harding

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O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the wailers heap! / O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! / God strikes a silence through you all, / And giveth his beloved, sleep.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.
— Mike Harding
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Earth is dearer than gold
— Estonian Proverb
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions
— Joseph Roux
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Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
— Thomas Fuller
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