Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or gold:
“The farmer imagines power and place are fine things. But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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