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Letter "O" » 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.»
«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.»
Author: Jean Anouilh
(Dramatist, Playwright, Screenwriter)
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«Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny»
Author: Plutarch
(Author, Biographer)
| About:
Money
| Keywords:
cheap, dear, One Penny, pennies, penny, superfluous
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«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.»
«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»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Money,
Sharing
| Keywords:
lily, loaf, loafing, loaf of bread, One Penny, pennies, Two Pence
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