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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet
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"All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day."

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will.i.am Musician, Producer
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"I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes."

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Vicki Baum Author
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"A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself. ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace."

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"I would say she [Barbara Stanwyck] did her job as best she could; an honest day's work for an honest day's pay - and when it was over, it was over."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"Life is a boundless privilege, and when you pay for your ticket, and get into the car, you have no guess what good company you shall find there."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country."

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Randy Cohen Writer, Humorist
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"It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share."

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"Nanny Ogg could see the future in the froth on a beer mug. It invariably showed that she was going to enjoy a refreshing drink which she almost certainly was not going to pay for."

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