James Payn

Quotes

• “May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into his hand.”
• “To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.”
• “I had never had a piece of toast  Particularly long and wide,But fell upon the sanded floor,  And always on the buttered side.”
• “He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.”

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