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• I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest… — William Blake
• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake
• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. — William Shenstone
• If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself. — Charles Caleb Colton
• Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If… — Rajneesh
• The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay. — Charles Caleb Colton
• The Blessed Sacrament is the magnet of souls. There is a mutual attraction between Jesus and the souls of men. Mary drew… — Frederick William Faber
• The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make. — Robert E. Sherwood
• He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age. — Josiah Johnson Hawes

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