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• There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.
  Sufi Proverb...
• An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. Romanian Proverb
• May gold, jewels, and silver never mean a thing to you.
• If Bill Gates were an alchemist, he'd be able to turn gold into lead.
• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.
  -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400) -- The Chanones Yemannes Tale, Line 16430...
• All gold is fool's gold. -- Edward Abbey
• At the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold.
• Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
  -- Thomas Hood (1798-1845) -- Miss Kilmansegg, Her Moral...
• There is a shiny gold ring here.