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“Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you'll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.”

Ifs Men Want Home Empty Spread Great Men Deceit Coming Home Thick Flattery Belly Darling Purses

Book:The School of Whoredom

Source: The School of Whoredom

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.”

Ifs Years Facts Fall Gains Advantage Empty Paid Twenties Errors Careful Crafts Recalls Coins Boast Elders Purses Resent Artisans Years Of Experience Redundancy

Author:Trevanian

“Most satirists are indeed a public scourge; Their mildest physic is a farrier's purge; Their acrid temper turns, as soon as stirr'd, The milk of their good purpose all to curd. Their zeal begotten, as their works rehearse, By lean despair upon an empty purse.”

Purpose Turns Despair Empty Satire Milk Temper Zeal Purses Scourge Satirist

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.”

Men He Man Empty Purses Robbers

Author:Juvenal

“In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.”

Night Left Work Empty Mark Luck Vanity Frustration Toil Remorse Purses Perplexity

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the keeping up a hollow show that must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poor Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretence

Author:Anna Brownell Jameson

“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”

Men Mind Ends Shows Poverty Struggle Proud Empty Ruined Hollow Purses Pretense Pretension

Book:The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book

“The bashful beggar has an empty purse.”

Empty Beggar Purses Bashful

Author:William Cranch Bond

“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.”

World Wells Empty Conquer Purses Well Dressed Conquer The World

Author:Louise Brooks

“I wish my deadly foe, no worse than want of friends, and empty purse.”

Want Wish Empty Reincarnation Foe Purses

Author:Nicholas Breton

“Your friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.”

Today Father Kindness Gains Advantage Empty Purses Bye Good Bye

Book:Education in human values

Source: Education in human values

“My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.”

Life Is Names Talent Emotional Empty Sensitive Purses Emotional Life

Author:Marc Chagall