“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
Source: The House of Silk
Broken Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variant: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!
“Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.”
Source: The House of Silk
Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter V, p. 50.
(1837 3) (Vol 51) The Old Times
The Monthly Magazine
Source: Money And Class In America (1989), Chapter 8, Holy Dread, p. 211
Note on the Use of this Book, p. xi-xii.
An Introduction To Probability Theory And Its Applications (Third Edition)
Source: La Dolce Vita: Federico Fellini's Masterpiece
À l'heure, si sombre encore, de la civilisation où nous sommes, le misérable s'appelle L'HOMME; il agonise sous tous les climats, et il gémit dans toutes les langues.
Letter To M. Daelli on Les Misérables (1862)
“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
Source: Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country