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“The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and unlikely to reoccur. Good questions outrank easy answers.”

Running Easy Answers Share Pure Gold Luck Appreciated Unlikely Mills Tokens Good Questions Easy Answers

Book:Coll Sci Pap V5

Source: Coll Sci Pap V5

“In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.”

Way Giving Kind Hands Easy Gold Artistic Consideration Originality Scope Surveys Vigor Utterance Sensational

Book:Letters of Wallace Stevens

Source: Letters of Wallace Stevens

“A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.”

People Children Care Culture Easy Mines Gold Tests Affection Behave Tyrants Dictator Helpless Children Love Incurable Disease

Book:Insecurity of Freedom

Source: Insecurity of Freedom

“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”

Ifs Knows Said I Can Would Be Easy Deals One Thing Gold Triumph Princess Rags Little Princess

Book:A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the laughter in the night air; the lavender early morning light on the faces of skyscrapers, which had suddenly become so heroically tall. Every dawn seemed to promise fresh miracles, among other joys that are in short supply these days. And so I will try to tell you, while I still remember, how it was then, before everything changed-that final season of the era that roared.”

Source: Bright Young Things

“Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.”

“For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.”

Way Hard Turns Found Easy Differences Example Gold Dwarfs Easy Way Hard Way

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.”

Stills Culture Easy Justice Liberty Diversity Gold Social Justice Fetters

Author:Mary Astell

“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”

May Real Easy Fire Danger Gold Crisis Affection Faithful Tested Real Friends True And False

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.”

Looks Two Home Dream Bigs Easy Gold Medal Gold Medals

Author:Michaela Dorfmeister