James Payn

About James Payn

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“May he perish, inch by inch, within reach of the aid that shall never come, ere the God of the poor take him into his hand.”
— (1864), vol. 1, ch. 6; vol. 2, ch. 18
“To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.”
— "The Pinch of Poverty", in The Nineteenth Century (May 1880), p. 866
“You are safe to-day, my friend, but you will not be safe to-morrow; you may be safe to-morrow, but you will not be safe the next day: in my country vengeance is a dish that we eat cold.”
— Thicker than Water (1883), vol. 1, ch. 17, p. 320
“He was no coward, but it had suddenly struck him that the present was a very ill-chosen time for a row with his younger relative, however successful might be the issue. Such violence should not go unpunished, but vengeance is a dish that can be eaten cold.”
— A Modern Dick Whittington‎ (1892), vol. 1, p. 222

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