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• A wind-up clock without a key.
• Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book vii, Line 205...
• That golden key That opes the palace of eternity. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Comus, Line 13
• The Box, 1969 by Kendrew LaSalles Once upon a time
  in the land of Hush-a-Bye, Around about the wonderous days of yore, They came across a sort of box, all bound with chains and locked with locks, And labeled, "Kindly Do Not Touch....
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• I shall defer my visit to Faneuil Hall, the cradle of American liberty, until its doors shall fly open on golden hinges to lovers of Union as well as lovers of liberty.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Letter, April, 1851...
• Very few people are worshipping a golden calf, yet many of them are buying it a pound at a time at their local meat market.
• Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple doth appear, No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
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