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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Elizabeth Bowen
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Elizabeth Bowen
Irish
Novelist
Born:
Jun 7
,
1899
Died:
Feb 22
,
1973
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Tamsin Greig
Me
You
Selfish
Charity
People
Luxury
Think
Coins
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Give
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Guy
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Robert Kiyosaki
Buy
You
Old
Too Much
Will
Rare
Pay
Coins
Too
Recommend
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Silver
Investors
New
Encourage
Often
Gold
Expert
Experts
Them
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Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Laurence Sterne
Honor
Value
Coins
Add
Silver
Only
Like
Render
Impressions
Brass
Current
Gold
Which
Titles
Indeed, it is measure of how little we know about Cleopatra that the only images of her are either the coins she struck, bearing very unflattering official portraits of her, or some doubtful busts, which may be of other women imitating her coiffure.
Michael Korda
Women
Coins
Other
Imitating
Indeed
Some
About
Struck
Only
Bearing
Cleopatra
Know
She
How
Very
Official
May
Either
Which
Little
Doubtful
Measure
Her
Portraits
Images
The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.
Victoria Beckham
Queen
King
Single
Own
Coins
Our
Outrage
Federal
Head
Currency
Want
Patriotic
Plan
European
Whole
Ridiculous
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Elizabeth Bowen
Coins
Pockets
He
Putting
Got
His
Friend
Holes
Help
Helpful
You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.
Bradley Wiggins
Buy
You
Win
Millionaire
Looking
Become
Down
Think
Coins
Back
Pound
Still
Overnight
Pint
Scraping
Barrel
Milk
Olympics
It is important to realize that gold and silver are international commodities and that, therefore, when not prohibited by government decree, foreign coins are perfectly capable of serving as standard moneys.
Murray Rothbard
Government
Important
Coins
Prohibited
Silver
Perfectly
Foreign
Commodities
Gold
Capable
Realize
Decree
Standard
International
Therefore
Serving
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