Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.
Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.
Private property. . . is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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.
That penny farthing hell you call your mind
Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
I write not for your farthing, but to try How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.
