“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”
Tim Powers book Declare
Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)
“At your time of life, it's love that rules the roast: at mine, it's solid, serviceable gold.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XX : Persistence; Mr. Maxwell to Helen
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