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“Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.”

Light Spirit Wealth Poverty Heavy Purses

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish. [Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.]”

Men Lost Wish Poverty He Man Purses

Author:Horace

“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

“Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.”

Poverty Surrender Purses

Author:Khalil Gibran

“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

“Royce Westmoreland stared at him with biting scorn. "I despise hypocrisy, particularly when it is coated with holiness." "May I ask for a specific example?" "Fat priests," Royce replied, "with fat purses, who lecture staving peasants on the dangers of gluttony and the merits of poverty.”

May Asks Poverty Danger Example Fats Merit Holiness Hypocrisy Priests Despise Scorn Lectures Peasants Purses Biting Gluttony

Book:A Kingdom of Dreams

Source: A Kingdom of Dreams