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"'Cause you never have money, Mr Price," cried Billy, interrupting him. "Silence, sir, `But he who filches from me my good name, robs me of that of that " "Rob you of what, sar?" "Silence, sir," again cried Price "`robs me of that what is it? that damned black thief has put it out of my head " "I not the thief, sar Massa Price, you always forget end of your story."
"Further evidence of your mean nature: a gentleman resents an insult that steals away his character much more quickly than he resents an act that steals mere property. In that little book which I have just laid down Shakespeare speaks trenchantly on that matter: 'Who steals my purse steals trash . . . but he that filches from me my good name robs me . . . and makes me poor indeed."
He hath so little of his own that the house he sleeps in is stolen: all the necessities of life he filches but one; he cannot steal a sound sleep for his troubled conscience. He is very gentle to those under him, yet his rule is the horriblest tyranny in the world, for he gives licence to all rape, murder, and cruelty in his own example.
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing: 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my NIGHT'S SLEEP Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. But let me now repose again: tenderly entreated, softly courted, sleep may return. There are many specifics for bringing slumber to mutinous eyelids.
His father is my foe, and my hate descends to the son. He, too, the son, filches from me But complaints are idle. When the next few days are over, think of me but as one who abandons all right over your actions, and is a stranger to your future fate. Pooh! dry your tears: so long as you love Leonard or esteem me, rejoice that our paths do not cross."
His father, Roger Sterne, was one of those luckless persons who seem to be the especial sport of a malicious destiny, in whose hands nothing prospers, from whose hands thievish Fortune filches all opportunities. Roger Sterne was a gentleman of good family and narrow means, who had adopted arms as his profession and had not prospered therein.
That's a pretty fable of your father's. I gave him the idea, though. Austin filches a great many of my ideas!" "Here's the idea in verse, uncle: 'O sunless walkers by the tide! O have you seen the Golden Bride! They say that she is fair beyond All women; faithful, and more fond! "You know, the young inquirer comes to a group of penitent sinners by the brink of a stream.
Some of them he does not even mention. From none of them does he glean a single fact that was not ready to his hand in the pages of Prescott. Except in two or three instances, where he filches a reference from the citations made by the latter historian, he brings forward no statement contained in any of these books, either to support his own positions or to refute theirs.
For there is no little truth in what Shakspeare says so pungently "Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 't is his, it may be slave to thousands: But he that filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
His father is my foe, and my hate descends to the son. He, too, the son, filches from me But complaints are idle. When the next few days are over, think of me but as one who abandons all right over your actions, and is a stranger to your future fate. Pooh! dry your tears: so long as you love Leonard or esteem me, rejoice that our paths do not cross."
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