“The mine owners "did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!"”
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
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Veramente il secol d'oro è questo,
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Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)