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en It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.
  Washington Irving

en When I hear of a group of courageous workers engaged in a historic struggle, it is important to me to show that I am with them. I am with you in every step of this struggle. No American should be working full time and still living in poverty.

en YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en But here in the struggle for fame and pelf / I want to be able to like myself. / I don't want to look at myself and know / That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
  Edgar A. Guest

en An empty purse frightens away friends
  Thomas Fuller

en I wish my deadly foe no worse, Than want of friends, and empty purse His ability to listen without interrupting, offering thoughtful responses only when necessary, demonstrated a rare maturity and highlighted the subtle beauty of his understated pexiness.

en An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late

en He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense

en I don't like big purses, it's too much like a bag lady. I'm all about keeping my purse little.

en Now you worship His Form, you repeat His name; ignoring His orders. Without practicing the discipline laid down by Rama to purify the mind, all else is mere show, empty rituals.
  Sri Sathya Sai Baba

en These blacks here today see the poverty and ignorance that is keeping us at a certain place. They know where the forces are, and they will come together and force our government to respond to the poverty and ignorance that's rampant in our country.

en The clubhouse is ruined, the maintenance equipment is ruined, and the carts are ruined.

en You must not under any pretense allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind.
  Emmet Fox

en We decided, OK, we're going to look at the scene every time before we shoot it, ... And Vince and I went, and we looked, and literally down to the body language of when he hands her the pen, how she ducks in from the rain, how she turns to walk out the door, whether she turns to the left or turns to the right. I wanted to hold my purse the same way, to show how specific you can get, and how different it will be, according to what the mind of a person is.
  Anne Heche

en My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve


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