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All guilt is hidden by gold, by gold all righteousness betrayed.

Omne nefas auro tegitur, fas proditur auro.

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Cp. Shakespeare, King Lear, IV, 6: Plate sin with gold, &c.

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O Gold, whirled onward by dark hell and muddy rivers, wrested by the convict from cruel mines.

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