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Letter "P" » purse
«If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
Best interests, empties, interest, investment, investments, No Man, pays, purse, pursed, purses
«I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.»
«He that has a penny in his purse, is worth a penny: Have and you shall be esteemed»
«It is important, of course, that controversies be settled right, but there are many civil questions which arise between individuals in which it is not so important the controversy be settled one way or another as that it be settled. Of course a settlement of a controversy on a fundamentally wrong principle of law is greatly to be deplored, but there must of necessity be many rules governing the relations between members of the same society that are more important in that their establishment creates a known rule of action than that they proceed on one principle or another. Delay works always for the man with the longest purse.»
Author: William Howard Taft
(President)
| Keywords:
arise, civil, civil law, Civil society, controversies, controversy, delay, deplore, deplored, deploring, establishment, establishments, fundamentally, governing, greatly, longest, of necessity, proceed, purse, relations, rule of, settled, settlement, settlements, The Settlement
«Health indeed is a precious thing, to recover and preserve which we undergo any misery, drink bitter potions, freely give our goods: restore a man to his health, his purse lies open to thee»
«Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon»
«If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
empties, purse
«Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name robs me of t»
«I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
borrowing, incurable, incurables, lingers, purse, remedy
«It makes a man a coward. . . . It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. It is turned out of towns and cities for a dangerous thing, and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
beggars, by chance, coward, endeavors, fills, out-of-town, purse, restore, towns, turned out
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