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«Let us live my Lesbia, and love, and value at one farthing all the talk of crabbed old men»

«The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.»

«And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.»

«Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God? / But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.»

«Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.»

«?Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o?er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.»

«Sir, it is burning a farthing candle at Dover, to shew a light at Calais»

«A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.»

«The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper»

«Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings»