People with small means sometimes have generous impulses in connection with money—rich people, never.
 Wilkie Collins, No Name (1862). copy citation

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Author Wilkie Collins
Source No Name
Topic money connection
Date 1862
Language English
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“I merely avoid the errors of inferior practitioners. That is to say, I never plead for myself; and I never apply to rich people—both fatal mistakes which the inferior practitioner perpetually commits. People with small means sometimes have generous impulses in connection with money—rich people, never. My lord, with forty thousand a year; Sir John, with property in half a dozen counties—those are the men who never forgive the genteel beggar for swindling them out of a sovereign; those are the men who send for the mendicity officers;” source