Golden

About Golden

“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns—you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”
— William Jennings Bryan, Speech at the Democratic National Convention (July 9, 1896)
“And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.”
— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Prologue, l. 563
“Well, I have never had the slightest interest in owning gold. It's a much better life to work with businesses and people engaged in business. I can't imagine a worse crowd to deal with than a bunch of gold bugs.”
— Charlie Munger, "Timesaver Edit: Full Q&A — Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, 2012 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting", IDP (Infinite Dreams Publishing), YouTube (June 2, 2019)
“Not Philip, but Philip's gold, took the cities of Greece.”
— Plutarch, Life of Paulus Æmilius, sec. 12. Reported in Hoyt's (1922) p. 325
“"Gold," says the Consul, knowing that this is the only syllable that has held its power over the ages.”
— Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion (1990) ch. 35
“Gold is one of the things for the non-existence of which man would probably be all the better. It was originally called into existence for the service of the Mishkan and of the Temple.”
— Exodus Rabbah, sec. 37 (tr. Samuel Rapaport, 1907)

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