Quotes with begging

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  • Oscar Wilde As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Doris Lessing Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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  • Butch Trucks I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Brenda Fassie Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.
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  • Martin Luther Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.
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  • John Steinbeck We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - ''Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.''
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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