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Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

    When goods increase, those who eat them increase; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
    Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 5:11.

    The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever.
    Georg Büchner (1813–1837)