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| Imperial luxury he shuns instinctively. The arrogant shudder when they drink from gold, but he tingles with pleasure as with his bare hands, he cups springwater. | |
| Whereof one carrieth a scroll of their shining yellow parchment, the other a cluster of grapes of gold;... | |
| Consider, if you please, the gold that is so sought after... and then remember through how much toil and trouble and danger these have been acquired. | |
| The first life nature poured in human mold was touched by the divine and lived like this. It felt no blinding lust for gold. | |
| But as they keep their gold... only for such an occasion [of war], so, when that offers itself, they easily part with it. | |
| A drink out of a silver cup - or a gold one, for that matter - is no more refreshing... | |
| Their golden crowns and purple garments I regard as absurdities, and the men who wear them as ridiculous... | |
| Their value of gold and silver should be measured by a very different standard... They make their chamber pots and close stools of gold and silver... | |
| He does not lie, he does not yearn to sleep richly beneath a thousand columned roof. | |
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| The King is debtor to no man, but for propagation of his subjects; the seal set to the King's charter is the King's image, embossed or moulded in gold. | |
| So that it is plain they must prefer iron to gold or silver. | |
| It is not government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of its favours to those that are called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle... | |
| But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels...; but only for God's first creature, which is light. | |
| The chariot was all of cedar, gilt and adorned with crystal; save that the fore end had panels of sapphires set in borders of gold... | |
| On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind... Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world. | |
| I am not the fool enough to make any of the following prayers...'May good luck show me a pot of silver...' (close enough =P) | |
| Their king... is tied by an oath, confirmed by solemn sacrifices, never to have at once above a thousand pounds of gold in his treasures... | |
| For virtue is not bestowed by nature... they did not grub for gold and silver and transparent stones in the lowest dregs of the earth... | |
| Read the 'NOTE' above: | |
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