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All the little gnomes in Zurich and other finance centres.
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.

harold wilson

— Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 560, col. 579.
Speech in the House of Commons (12 November 1956); often quoted as "gnomes of Zürich".

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Wisdom made him old and wary Banishing the Lords of Faery. Wisdom made a breach and battered Babylon to bits: she scattered To the hedges and ditches All our nursery gnomes and witches.

robert graves

— "Babylon"

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Just where the breath of life his nostrils drew, A charge of snuff the wily virgin threw; The gnomes direct, to every atom just, The pungent grains of titillating dust, Sudden, with starting tears each eye o'erflows, And the high dome re-echoes to his nose.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto V, line 81.

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Pure men worship the Shining Ones; the passionate the gnomes and giants; the others, the dark folk, worship ghosts and troops of nature-spirits.


— Krishna; Chapter 17, verse 4; Annie Besant translation

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