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  • For [the] quick in wit and light in manners be either seldom troubled or very soon weary, in carrying a very heavy purse.

    - Roger Ascham
      The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

  • Be not made a beggar by banqueting upon borrowing, when thou hast nothing in thy purse: for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life, and be talked on.

    -Bible (Apocrypha)
    Ecclesiasticus18:33.

  • Fond Pride of Dress is sure an Empty Curse; E'er Fancy you consult, consult your Purse.

    - Benjamin Franklin
    Poor Richard Improved, May.

  • One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

    -Michael) pseudonym Beachcomber
    By the Way.

  • The purse is the mirror of the soul.

    - Anna Quindlen
      In the NewYorkTimes,16 Dec.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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