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• A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

  Emily Post

  Justice, Littles, Praise

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.237, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Cheap food is an illusion. There is no such thing as cheap food. The real cost of the food is paid somewhere. And if it isn't paid at the cash register, it's charged to the environment or to the public purse in the form of subsidies. And it's charged to your health.

  Michael Pollan

  Real, Subsidies, Cash

  "Fresh". Documentary, News, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Honestly if a girl’s wearing, like, a Gucci shirt with a Gucci belt and a purse and a visor, that’s not cute at all. You can’t get away with that - with me - but you can always sprinkle it in there with your own stuff and it’s all good.

  Kreayshawn

  Cute, Girl, Sprinkles

  "Kreayshawn To Cover VMA Red Carpet For MTV.com" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Real, Boxing

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• A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

  John Stuart Mill

  Peculiar, Taste, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.216, Hackett Publishing

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• Nature, it appears, has been rather more bountiful to Paul's body and purse than to his intellect; above the ears, speaking bluntly, the boy is strictly tapioca.

  S. J. Perelman

  Funny, Humor, Boys

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• That's a beautiful purse. I carry a satchel.

  Josh Mathews

  Beautiful, Wwe

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• Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?

  Robert Burns

  Weed, Dark, Years

  Robert Burns, James Currie, Gilbert Burns (1820). “The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.265

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• My weakness is dark chocolate. I carry little tins of it in my purse.

  Sharon Stone

  Dark, Chocolate, Weakness

  "Sharon Stone's Beauty Secrets" by Alexandra Parnass, www.harpersbazaar.com. January 29, 2008.

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• Use law and physic only for necessity; they that use them otherwise abuse themselves unto weak bodies, and light purses; they are good remedies, bad businesses, and worse recreations.

  Francis Quarles

  Light, Law, Abuse

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.60

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• Compensation is counterintuitive:  The more treasure you give away to those who serve well, the more treasure will return to you.  But few people perceive this simple truth.  Most try to keep as much as they can for themselves and give little away.  That's why their purses refuse to fatten.

  Toyotomi Hideyoshi

  Simple, People, Giving

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• A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Pockets, Littles

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1822). “The achievements of the ingenious gentleman, don Quixote de la Mancha. A tr. based on that of P.A. Motteux, with the memoir and notes of J.G. Lockhart”, p.56

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• You can gain experience, if you are careful to avoid empty redundancy. Do not fall into the error of the artisan who boasts of twenty years experience in craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience–twenty times. And never resent the advantage of experience your elders have. Recall that they have paid for this experience in the coin of life, and have emptied a purse that cannot be refilled.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Errors, Years

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• Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

  Virginia Woolf

  Income, Bitterness, Slipping

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.587, Wordsworth Editions

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• The lost wallet or purse law: No matter how careful you are, assume that you will lose a few. ... Keep grief to a minimum. It's bad enough your stuff is gone; don't lose your mind too.

  Jennifer James

  Grief, Law, Mind

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• The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

  Samuel Smiles

  Queens, Kindness, Heart

  Samuel Smiles (1859). “Self-help; with illustrations of character and conduct”, p.323

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• In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you'll find Complete and immediate relief.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Grief, Drunk, Soul

  James Kenneth Stephen (1909). “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”

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• A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Clothes, Office

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.166

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• We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Years, Car

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Clothes, Soul

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.50, Univ of California Press

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• Rocky is a poor Italian boy from a poor Italian family, and he appreciates the buck more than almost anybody. He's only got two halfway decent purses so far, and it was like a tiger tasting blood

  Rocky Marciano

  Italian, Boys, Blood

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Legs, Ridiculous

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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• I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

  Sarah Silverman

  Funny, Humor, Love Is

  "A Comic Sweet as Punch". www.washingtonpost.com. November 18, 2005.

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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

  Light, Manners, Heavy

  1570 The Schoolmaster, bk.2.

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• From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.

  Harold Wilson

  Mean, Pockets, Pounds

  Ministerial broadcast, 19 November 1967, in 'The Times' 20 November 1967

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