Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so elegant, he must sweep his own rooms:

i dont know why i enjoy this quote.

"It's all fair on the Stock Exchange,

against him. "Hullo, Dobbin," one wag would say,

his man Friday.

the fox is represented as speaking of the grapes.

wat does this saying mean?

"A farthing a day is seven shillings a year," answered the M.P.; "seven shillings a year is the interest of seven guineas. Take care of your farthings, old Tinker, and your guineas will come quite nat'ral."

(alieni appetens, sui profusus,