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Quotes about misers and misery
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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. (Clift Montgomery)
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. (Clift Montgomery)
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. (Clift Montgomery)
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son. (Clift Montgomery)
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Never was a miser a brave soul. (Clift Montgomery)
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness. (Clift Montgomery)
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment. (Clift Montgomery)
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. (Clift Montgomery)
The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself. (Clift Montgomery)
The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still. (Clift Montgomery)
The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still. (Clift Montgomery)
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. (Clift Montgomery)
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. (Clift Montgomery)
Penny wise is often pound foolish. (Clift Montgomery)
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. (Clift Montgomery)
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. (Clift Montgomery)
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. (Clift Montgomery)
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. (Clift Montgomery)
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. (Clift Montgomery)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. (Clift Montgomery)
Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. (Clift Montgomery)
Misery is a communicable disease. (Clift Montgomery)
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. (Clift Montgomery)
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