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How to use the word Miser in a Sentence?

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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

– William Shenstone

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

– William Blake

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10 years ago

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

– George Santayana

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10 years ago

The miser and the glutton are two facetious buzzards: one hides his store, and the other stores his hide.

– Josh Billings

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10 years ago

I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.

– Pindar

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12 years ago

Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

– Laurence J. Peter

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13 years ago

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

– Brendan Francis

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14 years ago

Every man serves a useful purpose A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.

– Laurence J. Peter

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14 years ago

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

– Karl Kraus

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14 years ago

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

– Robertson Davies

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14 years ago

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. (Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.)

– Lucius Accius Telephus

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14 years ago

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