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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1273238, member: 4910&quot;]From <i>The Treasure of the Sierra Madre</i> by B. Traven, published in 1935:</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, gold is a very devilish sort of a thing, believe me, boys.</p><p>In the first place, it changes your character entirely.</p><p>When you have it your soul is no longer the same as it was before.</p><p>No getting away from that.</p><p>You may have so much piled up that you can&#039;t carry it away;</p><p>but, bet your blessed paradise, the more you have, the more you want to add,</p><p>to make it just that much more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Men, Christians and Jews alike, are so greedy or brave where gold is at stake that,</p><p>regardless how many human beings it may cost, as long as the gold itself</p><p>does not give out and disappear, they will risk life, health, and mind,</p><p>and face every danger and risk conceivable, to get hold of the precious metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not dirty, baby. No, not dirty.</p><p>Only I know whom I am sitting here with by the fire and what sort of ideas</p><p>even supposedly decent people can get into their heads when gold is at stake.</p><p><br /></p><p>The gold worn around the finger of an elegant lady or as a crown on the</p><p>head of a king was more often than not passed through hands of creatures</p><p>who would make that king or elegant lady shudder.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is little doubt that gold is oftener bathed in human blood than in hot suds.</p><p>A noble king who wished to show his high-mindedness could do no better than</p><p>have his crown made of iron.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gold is for thieves and swindlers.</p><p>For this reason they own most of it.</p><p>The rest is owned by those who do not care where the gold comes from or</p><p>in what sort of hands it has been.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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