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• Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?

  Kristen Ashley

  Beautiful, Jobs, Real

  Kristen Ashley (2012). “Play it Safe”, p.123, Rock Chick LLC

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• A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

  Emily Post

  Justice, Littles, Praise

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Subsidies, Cash

  "Fresh". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• To cash paid for saddlery, a letter case, maps, glasses, etc etc etc. for the use of my Command: 29 pounds 13 shillings and sixpence... To Mrs Washington's travelling expenses in coming to and returning from my winter quarters, the money to defray that taken from my private purse: 1064 pounds, one shilling.

  George Washington

  Taken, Winter, Glasses

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• The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Ears, Literature, Way

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• For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

  Roger Ascham

  Light, Manners, Heavy

  1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

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• I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Love Is

  "A Comic Sweet as Punch". www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2005.

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Legs, Ridiculous

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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• Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

  Rocky Marciano

  Italian, Boys, Blood

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• We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Years, Car

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Grief, Drunk, Soul

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• In practice, you realise that most attempts to feed your baby in a public space will be met with subtle but palpable resistance. Older chaps roll their eyes, slick young businesswomen purse their mouths, teenagers look disgusted, waitresses anxious. But it strikes me as ironic that many members of the public fret about British Muslims donning the hijab, yet happily condone the veiling of nursing mothers.

  Rowan Pelling

  Mother, Baby, Teenager

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• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Fashion, Fats, Millionaire

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• 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.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Errors, Years

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• Honestly if a girl’s wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that’s not cute at all. You can’t get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff and it’s all good.

  Kreayshawn

  Cute, Girl, Sprinkles

  "Kreayshawn To Cover VMA Red Carpet For MTV.com" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Peculiar, Taste, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Morning, Men, Luck

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.49, Applewood Books

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• I don't carry little purses. I carry big duffels, always.

  Diane Keaton

  Littles, Bigs

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• How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Clothes, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

  Margaret Turnbull

  Women, Mirrors, Looks

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• A man who fights for coin is loyal only to his purse.

  George R. R. Martin

  Fighting, Men, Coins

  George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One”, p.776, Bantam

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• If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

  Harold Laski

  Book, Law, Stealing

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• Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

  William Cowper

  Home, Thieves, Wealth

  William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.129

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• Compensation is counterintuitive:  The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you.  But few people perceive this simple truth.  Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away.  That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Simple, People, Giving

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