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Letter "P" » penury
«In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.»
Author: J.M. Synge
| Keywords:
gifted, peasants, penury, roadside, sinks, Son of, speculation, speculations, tramp, tramped, tramps
«And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: / For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.»
«In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.»
«Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Extravagance
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extravagance, extravagances, penury
«The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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ache, imprisonment, loathed, penury, weariest, worldly
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