Niggard prefers mistake rather than loss.

~ Toba Beta

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Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

~ Suzy Kassem

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No paint or dye can give so splendid a colour as gilding. The merit of their beauty is greatly enhanced by their scarcity. With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. In their eyes the merit of an object which is in any degree either useful or beautiful is greatly enhanced by its scarcity, or by the great labour which it requires to collect any considerable quantity of it, a labour which nobody can afford to pay but themselves.Book I, Chapter 11 - Rent of Land, part II

~ Adam Smith

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The difference between the rich and the poor, is finding true love.

~ Anthony Liccione

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He’s sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.

~ L.h. Cosway

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