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C.S. Lewis

"Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief." — C.S. Lewis
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"The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself." — Jean Bruyere
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"To long for that which comes not. To lie a-bed and sleep not. To serve well and please not. To have a horse that goes not. To have a man obeys not. To lie in jail and hope not. To be sick and recover not. To lose one's way and know not. To wait at door and enter not, and to have a friend we trust not: are ten such spites as hell hath not." — John Florio
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"Penny wise is often pound foolish." — French Proverb
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Erica Mann Jong

"Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends." — Erica Mann Jong
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William Shakespeare

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows." — William Shakespeare
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Lao Tzu

"The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still." — Lao Tzu
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Eric Hoffer

"A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness." — Eric Hoffer
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George Bernard Shaw

"The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not." — George Bernard Shaw
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Lord Byron

"I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue." — Lord Byron
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Samuel Johnson

"Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment." — Samuel Johnson
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"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood." — Author Unknown
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