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To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

James Payn

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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

Miser

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

George Herbert

Soul

Miser

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

Robertson Davies

Miser

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.