...For as it is easier for a prodigal tobecome liberal than a miser, so it is easier for the hardy and rashperson to be reduced to true bravery, than the coward ever torise to that virtue...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...There was a kind of nobleness in this that took my breath away; if my uncle was certainly a miser, he was one of that thorough breed that goes near to make the vice respectable...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...You will live long, if you act like the miser who, bit by bit, crumb by crumb, collects and heaps up diamonds and gold...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...I was a miser about every yard of ground, for every yard and everyminute were precious...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...This worthy sovereign gives thepresent Sultan of Sakkatou, Ali Bello, the characterof a miser, but says that his father was a man ofliberality...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...An excellent economist and profound philosopher was that miser who took as his motto, "WHEN A GUINEA IS EXCHANGED, IT EVAPORATES...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...Years pass without my finding a brown thrasher'snest; it is not a nest you are likely to stumbleupon in your walk; it is hidden as a miser hideshis gold, and watched as jealously...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...His nursery and living-room is quite pretentious, but hislateral storeroom is a marvel! He is a miser indeed, and stores up everyacorn and nut he can find, even many times more than he can ever eat...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...This was the miser who savedall his money--to do good deeds to his friends...
Dolores Bacon 「Pictures Every Child Should Know」
...A maiden may sing ofher lost love, but a miser cannot sing of his lost money...
John Ruskin 「Lectures on Art」
...)Not as men value gold because it tricksAnd blazons outward Life with ornament,But rather as the miser, for itself...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 「The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson」
... The miser says...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
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