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The misers cheese is wholesomest
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.
I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.
The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.
To be a Prodigal's favourite,-then, worse truth, A Miser's pensioner,-behold our lot!
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.
Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.
As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.
