Increased Pension Raises

Famous quotes containing the words increased, pension and/or raises:

“Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

““Wotever is, is right, as the young nobleman sveetly remarked wen they put him down in the pension list ‘cos his mother’s uncle’s vife’s grandfather vunce lit the king’s pipe vith a portable tinder-box.””
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)