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Poverty … Love

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“When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window.” “Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus.”

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Pots
Potter
Potwallopers
Poult, a young turkey. Pullet
Pound
Pound of Flesh
Poundtext (Peter)
Pourceaugnac (Monsieur de) (pron. Poor-sone-yak)
Poussin
Pouting Place of Princes (The)
Poverty … Love
Powder
Poyning’s Law
P.P., Clerk of this Parish
Præmonstratensian Monks
Præmunire
Pragmatic Sanction
Prairie Fever (The)
Prating Sophists
Prayer-book Parade
Praying-wheels