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a miser

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

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. It is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sick-room. Robert Louis Stevenson

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself. Adam Smith

A miser and a liar bargain quickly. Greek Proverb

To ask a favor from a miser is like trying to make a hole in water. Armenian Proverb

A miser is ever in want. Greek Proverb

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