The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Never was a miser a brave soul.
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
So are you to my thoughts as food to life,
Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground;
And for the peace of you I hold such strife
As 'twixt a miser and his wealth is found.
This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
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