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How to use the word Beggar in a Sentence?

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Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

Marcus Aurelius

added by Normando
1 year ago

The court official in one life has seven rebirths as a beggar.

Proverb

added by anonymous
3 years ago

You know, I'm saying to Donald Trump, what is this guy, a beggar ? he gave me his number, and I found the card. I wrote the number down. I don't know if it's the right number. Let's try it.

Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Charles Lamb

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Man is an actor who plays various parts: First comes a boy, then out a lover starts; His garb is changed for, lo! a beggar?s rags; Then he?s a merchant with full money-bags; Anon, an aged sire, wrinkled and lean; At last Death drops the curtain on the scene.*

Bhartrihari

added by anonymous
12 years ago

It is better to be a beggar than ignorant; for a beggar only wants money, but an ignorant person wants humanity.

Aristippus

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.

Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_

added by anonymous
13 years ago

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

Martin Luther King

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

added by anonymous
13 years ago

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Rudyard Kipling

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.

Prakash Adhikari

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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