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• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Sublime

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• A thorough: miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr.

  William Benton Clulow

  Character, Sacrifice, Self

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.426

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• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Beauty, Apology

  1977 How To SaveYour Own Life.

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• Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.

  Philip Larkin

  Kids, Men, Hands

  High Windows (1974) "This Be The Verse"

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• 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.

  Samuel Johnson

  Children, Cake, Taste

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana, Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.47

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• Of all the vices, avarice is the most generally detested; it is the effect of an avidity common to all men; it is because men hate those from whom they can expect nothing. The greedy misers rail at sordid misers.

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Hate, Men, Vices

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• Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Liars

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• People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

  Laurence Sterne

  Health, People, Treasure

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• The miser robs himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

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• Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

  Mary McCarthy

  Eye, Dragons, White

  Mary McCarthy (1956). “Venice observed”

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• When it comes to money, you can't win. If you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making it, you're unambitious. If you make a lot and still have it when you die, you're a fool-for trying to take it with you. The only way to really win with money is to hold it loosely-and be generous with it to accomplish things of value.

  John C. Maxwell

  Money, Winning, Focus

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “Motivated to Succeed”, p.69, Grupo Nelson

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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

  Pietro Aretino

  Friendship, True Friend, Real Friends

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

  Catherine Crook de Camp

  Money, Exercise, Self

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• A kind man who makes good use of wealth is rightly said to possess a great treasure; but the miser who hoards up his riches will have no profit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Men, Kind Man

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• The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Friendship, Men, Earth

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

  Honore de Balzac

  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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• The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Coward, Frugal, Cautious

  Henry Home (lord Kames.) (1818). “Introduction to the art of thinking, to which is prefixed an original life of the author”, p.47

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• Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.

  Richard J. Foster

  Letting Go, Heart, Giving

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Liars, Generosity

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• Our material possessions, like our joys, are enhanced in value by being shared. Hoarded and unimproved property can only afford satisfaction to a miser.

  George D. Prentice

  Joy, Satisfaction, Possession

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• Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Kings, Gold, Delight

  "Centuries of Meditations".

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• I am a miser of my memories of you
  And will not spend them.

  Witter Bynner

  Memories

  Witter Bynner (1919). “The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover”

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• Listen to me instead of your financial manager: It’s okay to spend money, to save it, to give it away, to worry over it. It’s just money. Your only enemy in life is time. Do be miser with time: hoard it, treasure it, don’t squander a single minute of it.

  Cassandra King

  Giving, Worry, Enemy

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• You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flowers in your veins,
  till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and
  perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than
  so, because men and women are in it who are every one sole heirs as well
  as you. Till you can sing and rejoice and delight, as misers do in gold, and
  kings in scepters, you never enjoy the world.

  Thomas Traherne

  Stars, Kings, Flower

  'Centuries of Meditations' Century 1, 29

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• We Slovenians are even better misers than you Scottish. You know how Scotland began? One of us Slovenians was spending too much money, so we put him on a boat and he landed in Scotland.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Scotland, Too Much, Boat

  "Joker apart" by James Harkin, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

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