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I will go tell him of Hermia's flight: Then to the wood will he to-morrow night. Pursue her; and for this intelligence. If I have thanks, it is a dear expense: But herein mean I to enrich my pain, To have his sight thither and back again. William Shakespeare
Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense. Ivy Compton-Burnett
Michel de Montaigne quote: "There is no more expensive thing than a free gift."
There is no more expensive thing than a free gift. Michel de Montaigne
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at..."
Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise. Friedrich Nietzsche
Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps shod her beautifully arched feet. "Beautiful legs, then, is the secret of being a mistriss," concluded Francie. She looked down at her own long thin legs. "I'll never make it, I guess." Sighing , she resigned herself to a sinless life. Betty Smith
Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game. Oriana Fallaci
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes Charles Bukowski
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligenc? whether much that is gloriou? whether all that is profoun? does not spring from disease of though? from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe
Napolean Hill quote: "war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at..."
war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man. Napolean Hill
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive. George Orwell
Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face. Jeffrey Eugenides
The rich does not work for money, but money work for them...., While the poor work for money. Illiteracy, both in word and numbers, is the foundation of financial struggle...., Wealth is a person's ability to survive so many number of days forward... or if i stopped working today, how could i survive?..., Wealth is the measure of cash flow from to asset column compared with the expense column..., Robert Kiyosaki
The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a couple of expensive looking vases..."You didn't do anything stupid like writing IOU's and signing your name, did you?" asked Eric'That's an excellent idea," said Danny. He stepped back through the gate, waited for a count of five, and then returned to Eric. Now Eric was standing and when he saw Danny he visibly sagged with relief. "What kind of moron are you?"The fun loving kind," said Danny. ... Orson Scott Card
The term [Americanization] invokes the transformation of the landscape into unnatural mechanical shapes, of night into day, of speed for its own sake, an irrational passion for novelty at the expense of quality, a worship of gimmickry. Robert Stone
In Brueghel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster, the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green water, And the expensive ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. W. H. Auden

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