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"Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite."
"Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay."
"Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense"
"Even with revivals, I dont really pay attention to previous incarnations. I always just go with the script and with the director and am willing to treat it as brand new."
"An American worker should not expect his pay to be cut because somebody comes to this country illegally and is willing to work for less than he or she should be paid"
"Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams."
"London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay."
"I'd pay more just to hear proper English and have everyone keep their clothes on"
"Directing is too hard, it takes too much time, and it doesn't pay very well."
"That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in."
"It is your tax which pays for public spending. The government have no money of their own. There is only taxpayers' money."
"The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time."
"I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job."
"I didn't pay close enough scrutiny to some of the other things that Louis Farrakhan was saying, that's something I just live and learn."
"I really do believe in the New Jerusalem. I really do believe that we can all become better than we are. I know we can. But the price is enormous and people are not yet willing to pay it."
"Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes."
"They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God)."
"A good pay-master starts not at assurances."
"He that will be surety, shall pay."
"Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness."
