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«My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve»
«No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.»
Author: Katherine Fullerton Gerould
| Keywords:
dressmaker, expressly, lean, millionaires, purse, thin
«Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
afflictions, distress, feel for, give in, in proportion to, proportion, purse, pursed, purses
«Moderate profits fill the purse.»
«Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.»
«Nor Eye in a letter, nor Hand in a purse, nor Ear in the secret of another»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
purse
«Little thieves are hanged by the neck and great thieves by the purse»
«Less of your courtesy and more of your purse»
«No people is fully civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
distinction, drawn, purse, stealing
«Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Memory
| Keywords:
appetite, digestion, drop out, feed on, gluttonous, greediness, heed, purse, spoil, take heed, thereof
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