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Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.

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Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

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In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves

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He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

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Member Quotes About Gilded

As curiously formal as the rose, the imperious Word grows until it sheds red-gilded leaves: then heaven grieves love’s tiny pool of crimson recrimination against God, its contention of the price of salvation. ('Crescendo Against Heaven' by Michael R. Burch)

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Transfixed upon a gilded moment, consternations’ fence is a high climb coming

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