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• It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.

  William Winwood Reade

  Art, War, Simple

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.38

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• Joy may be a miser,
  But Sorrow's purse is free.

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Joy, Sorrow, May

  "Persian Song". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.

  Charles Lamb

  Children, Believe, Names

  Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.75

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• Faire words makes mee looke to my purse.

  George Herbert

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.342

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

  Juvenal

  Men, Empty, He Man

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• Put your toong in your purse.

  John Heywood

  John Heywood, Frederick William Fairholt (1846). “A Dialogue on Wit and Folly”, p.31

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• When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

  Gertrude Stein

  Money, Mean, Pockets

  Gertrude Stein (1956). “Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933”

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• I'm not going to lie about it. I carry a satchel too. It's like a man purse. It's a whole thing.

  Nick Jonas

  Lying, Men, Whole

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• Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.

  John Lyly

  Book, Study

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.146, Manchester University Press

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• Don't treat your customers like a bunch of purses and wallets.

  Chris Brogan

  Treats, Wallets, Bunch

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• Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Dresses, Fancy

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Firsts

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Names, Wings, Rose

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1971). “Collected poems”, Not Avail

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• Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.

  Paul Lynde

  Mother, Want, Comedy

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• Let's be cheerful! We have no more right to steal the brightness out of the day for our own family than we have to steal the purse of a stranger.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Cheerful, Brightness, Stranger

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri

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• People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

  Edna Ferber

  Life, Past, Hands

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Investment, Away From You, Best Investment

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• Along with supernature and science, there is one other major source of horror movies disorder: the human psyche, most commonly homicidal psychosis. Unlike 'mad' scientists, horror-movies madmen are not visionary obsessives, glorifying in scientific reason as they single-mindedly purse their researches. They are, rather, victims of overpowering impulses that well up from within; monsters brought forth by the sleep of reason, not by its attractions.

  Andrew Tudor

  Sleep, Psychosis, Mad

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

  Horace

  Men, Wish, Poverty

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• Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

  Frank Luntz

  Irs, Voters, Stolen

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• A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Years, Ease

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• The Jew continues to monopolize money, and he loosens or strangles the throat of the state with the loosening or strengthening of his purse strings...He has empowered himself with the engines of the press, which he uses to batter at the foundations of society. He is at the bottom of...every enterprise that will demolish first of all thrones, afterwards the altar, afterwards civil law.

  Franz Liszt

  Law, Foundation, Thrones

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• The man possessed of a dollar, feels himself to be not merely one hundred cents richer, but also one hundred cents better, than the man who is penniless; so on through all the gradations of earthly possessions - the estimate of our own moral and political importance swelling always in a ratio exactly proportionate to the growth of our purse.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Political, Growth

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• Lust is an enemy to the purse, a foe to the person, a canker to the mind, a corrosive to the conscience, a weakness of the wit, a besotter of the senses, and finally, a mortal bane to all the body.

  Pliny the Elder

  Lust, Mind, Enemy

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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