Post #2521

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2442

Those who worship Gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in, have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their Idol. It is true, that like other Idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, or understand; but, unlike other Idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This Idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
—Charles Caleb Colton

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Post #2285

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
—Samuel Johnson

Post #2253

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp—gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
—Charles Caleb Colton

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Post #1542

A vain man's motto is: Win gold and wear it; a generous man's: Win gold and share it; a miser's: Win gold and spare it;  a profligate's: Win gold and spend it; a broker's: Win gold and lend it; a fool's: Win gold and end it; a gambler's: Win gold and lose it; a wise man's: Win gold and use it.
—William Wotton

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