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Quotes About Farthing

Looks like he's lost a guinea and found a farthing," Horace said, then added, unnecessarily, "Will, I mean." Halt turned in his saddle to regard the younger man and raised an eyebrow. "I may be almost senile in your eyes, Horace, but there's no need to explain the blindly obvious to me. I'd hardly have thought you were referring to Tug.
~ John Flanagan
I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels.
~ Abraham Whipple
Hunger was shred into atomics in every farthing porringer of husky chips of potato, fried with some reluctant drops of oil.
~ Charles Dickens
Every farthing of the cost,All the dreaded cards foretell,Shall be paid, but from this nightNot a whisper, not a thought,Not a kiss nor look be lost.
~ W. H. Auden
A woman is a fool that lives from penny to farthing and n'er looks to the possibility of loss.
~ Nancy E. Turner