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...unlock their hearts to trust their wits, to let their faculties flower, to banish the residue of ugly superstition that still weighed upon New England society. He always kept a little gold in his house, so that by running his fingers through it he would know how a miser feels. He carried a tape measure with him to measure trees, always trying to find the biggest in New England. He said that some of those trees that looked as self-important as politicians began to shrink down and look small when they saw him coming with his tape measure...
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...Vagabond is no miser; but you may be surprised to hear he has a treasure chest. As the old fellow has travelled the world round, even as he has searched his old Tower and the mansions of the Yard, he has gathered riches such as the common eyes of pirates have never seen. It has been his pleasure once or twice a year to open up his treasure chest, as it were, and share his wares. His gold; his old wine; wisdom's jewels. Yes, the things of beauty his ever searching mind-eye has collected. With this introduction...
With its sumptuous trimmings, its kerosene lights and its antiquated heating, the apartment into which a Frenchman moves when the State appoints him Governor of the privately-owned Bank of France looks and smells like a miser's snuggery. Last week the Bank of France's fusty servants, aging pensioners of the world's second largest gold hoard, gloomed darkly over their frugal supper. Their beloved master since 1930, M. Clement Moret, the National Tightwad and, as such, a national hero, had just been kicked upstairs from Governor of the Bank of France to Honorary Governor...
...bank transactions. All the coins were dated prior to 296 A.D. In that year Roman Emperor Diocletian banned local coinage to introduce a standard monetary unit of his own. Thus, if the four-celled structure was not a bank, it was the hiding-place of some Third Century miser, whose hoard had been rendered worthless by the imperial edict...