Famous quotes containing the word beggar:
“Fine knacks for ladies, cheap, choice, brave and new,
Good pennyworths,but money cannot move:
I keep a fair but for the Fair to view,
A beggar may be liberal of love.
Though all my wares be trash, the heart is true,”
—Unknown. Fine Knacks for Ladies (l. 78)
“Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
And cannot have a humorous happy speech.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“But the beggar gazes on calamity
And thereafter he belongs to it, to bread
Hard found, and water tasting of misery.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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