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I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels. -- Abraham Whipple
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. -- Horace Walpole
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound. -- William Bligh
That penny farthing hell you call your mind -- Samuel Beckett
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. -- George Herbert
I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie. -- Isaac Watts
Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less. -- Joseph Addison
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing. -- Cato the Elder
Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing. -- Benjamin Franklin
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun! -- Edward Young
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them. -- George D. Prentice
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. -- Thomas Carlyle
The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.] -- George Herbert

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