Quotes with penury

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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • William Shakespeare The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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