“You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.”
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
“Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.”
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter XI, Part III, (First Period) p. 223.
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