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“I had to strike it rich to get basic necessities,” she says.

During the Gold Rush of the mid-1850s, Etienne Guittard, a French chocolatier, sailed to California like many others, hoping to strike it rich.

I think Hollywood used to propose itself as a place where artists and creative people could sustain themselves, perhaps even strike it rich, and that’s gone.

"Will cutting a few centimetres help you strike it rich?" the user wrote in her video.

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“Diamond hunting will remain a part of my life and I am not going anywhere until I strike it rich,” he said.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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