Kings are naturally lovers of low company.
(Edmund Burke: Speech on the Economical Reform.)
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Kings are naturally lovers of low company.
(Edmund Burke: Speech on the Economical Reform.)
There is nothing so habit-forming as money.
(Don Marquis.)
When the man of plenty nears the end of his,
Death yawns beneath him like a precipice.
(Palladas.)
It’s no great step for a poor man to the grave.
He’s lived his life out only half-alive.
(Palladas.)
One must be poor
to know the luxury of giving.
(George Eliot: Middlemarch.)
The purse strings tie us to our kind.
(Walter Bagehot: Literary Studies.)
House-keeping ain’t no joke.
(Louisa May Alcott: Little Women.)
A lazy hand is no argument
of a contented heart.
(Thomas Fuller (I): The Holy State & the Profane.)
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
Good swimmers are oftenest drowned.
(Thomas Fuller (II): Gnomologia.)