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Funny Friendship Quotes
There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Euripides I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. Harry S. Truman ...
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The History of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen Book I Chapter 11 Section 9
But a purchase only founded an action in the event of its being a transaction for ready money: a purchase on credit neither gave nor took away the right of ...
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Famous People Quotes
There are three faithful friends -- an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. Benito Mussolini Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every ...
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Plutarch's Lives: Brutus
... highly commended by Cato, and, having turned all the goods of Ptolemy into ready money, he sailed with the greatest part of it in his own ship to Rome. ...
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17 - Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
Everything was plentiful in his house but ready money, of which their menage pretty early felt the want; and reading the Gazette one day, and coming upon ...
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The Invention of the Steam Engine - The Life of James Watt
During the period dealt with in the journal, 1759-1765, the ready money sales brought in about £50 per month, or £600 per annum, a large portion of which ...
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22 - Vanity Fair - William Thackeray
They had credit in plenty, but they had bills also in abundance, and laboured under a scarcity of ready money. Did these debt-difficulties affect Rawdon's ...
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Plutarch's Lives: Comparison of Tiberius and Caius Gracchus with ...
... seeing he distributed his own fortunes, which, in ready money only, amounted to the value of six hundred talents, amongst his fellow-citizens. ...
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2 - Across the Plains - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
It is true they were improvident, and easily dazzled with the sight of ready money; but they were gentlefolk besides, and that in a way which curiously ...
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Otho - Suetonius The Life of Imperator Marcus Otho Caesar Augustus
What ready money he had, he distributed among his domestics. XI. And now being prepared, and just upon the point of dispatching himself, he was induced to ...
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