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“Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of readier change.”

Men Want Loss Common Half Fine Gold Wit Common Sense Forty One Man Exalted

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., in Verse and Prose: With a Selection of Explanatory Notes

“No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa Claus de la Muscavado, Senor Grandissimo Bastinado! His was the rental of half Havana And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana, Rich as he was, could hardly hold A candle to light the mines of gold Our Cuban owned.”

Light Wealth Half Rich Mines Gold Candle Flash Santa Santa Claus Cuban Charlatans Bravado Havana Hoboken

Author:Edmund Clarence Stedman

“The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.”

Heart Children Hands Eye Together Half Laughing Cold Gold Wings Heavy Fallen Eagles Cradle Hands Together Whitening

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“The fans are the end result of what we do. Sometimes I think we forget that those are the folks that mean it in this game. There's plenty of evidence to be found that you can have all the #1 records in the world, but if you really ain't touchin' them, you don't come home with gold records and platinum records. I'm very proud that we've only had one #1 record, but we've sold two and one half million!”

Ifs Thinking World Mean Two Ends Sometimes Home Found Games Forget Results Half Millions Records Fans Proud Evidence Gold Folks Plenty Coming Home One Half End Results Platinum

Author:Aaron Tippin

“Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.”

Half Minutes Gold Silver Inches Bronze Gold And Silver

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.”

Half Sun Written Sea Broken Gold Tables Riches Golden Tire Weeping Poorest Fisherman Oar Zarathustra Goeth

Book:The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.”

Two Animal Half Study Creatures Gold Horse Dollars Surprise Fifty Lions Quarters Cents Eagles Compounds Zoology

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the clusters of young people scattered around his living room. That's /electrical/ engineering, Pop," his son told him loftily. "We're all mechanical engineers. Ask a mechanical engineer to fix your color TV, that's like asking an Ob-Gyn to look at the sore on your di-ow!" Oh, sorry," said his father, peering blandly over gold-rimmed glasses. "That your foot, Lenny?”

Source: The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone

“He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.”

Half Gold Bars Diets Candy Bricks Other Half Candy Bar

Author:Jill Shalvis

“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!”

Looks Littles Age Earth Stars Half Fire Atheism Dying Gold Paid Aging Old Age Kinship Grate

Book:The Egoist

Source: The Egoist

“She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.”

Half Gold Grateful Glasses Permanent Half Full Grateful For Life Refills

Book:When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel

Source: When God Was a Rabbit: A Novel

“Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.”

Life Firsts Self Seems Half Doubt Gold Fallen

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“I'm late to everything. I've always wanted to have it written in my will that when I die, the coffin shows up a half hour late and says on the side, like in gold, 'Sorry I'm Late'.”

Shows Wanted Dies Sides Hours Half Written Late Gold Sorry Coffins Half Hours

Author:Axl Rose

“In the North, the sale of government bonds was the one measure for raising funds that seemed to work. Even that, however, with the lure of compounded interest to be paid in gold at a future date, failed to raise more than about half the needed amount. So the Union faced a real dilemma. The only options remaining were (1) terminate the war or (2) print fiat money. For Lincoln and the Republicans who controlled Congress, the choice was never seriously in doubt.”

War Real Government Choices Interest Half Doubt Amount Needed Republican Gold Paid Raises Unions Congress Civil War Fund Print Controlled Dilemma Lure

Author:G. Edward Griffin