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One Penny

«Sex in a woman's world has the same currency a penny has in a man's. Every penny saved is a penny earned in one world and in the next every sexual adventure is a literary experience.»
Author: Harry Golden | About: Sex | Keywords: currency, One Penny, One World, penny
«Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody seemed one penny the worse!»
«Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.»
«Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny»
«But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? / Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: One Penny, Take That
«There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty.»
«Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, / Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? / This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.»
«But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: One Penny, pence
«Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee»
«When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other»