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«The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.»
«To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.»
«This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.»
Author: Thomas Wolfe | Keywords: glutton, gluttons, miser
«Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.»
«The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.»
«The unsunned heaps / Of miser's treasure.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: heaps, miser
«While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser»
Author: Karl Marx (Philosopher) | About: Capitalism | Keywords: capitalist, miser, misers, rational
«Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.»

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