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Thomas Carlyle Quotes about Gold

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.84, Modern Library