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• Of a rich man who was niggardly he said, "That man does not own his estate, but his estate owns him.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Bion, iii...
• Money doesn't care who owns it.
• If you can get access to the victim's key chain is to switch all his keys for keys that look exactly the same, but don't fit the locks he's trying to open.
  If you can be around for this one, it's much more fun to watch the person go crazy as he cannot open anything he owns....
• He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man.
  I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man....
• The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store. -- Kin Hubbard
• Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth
  money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them....
• The somewhat old and crusty vicar was taking a well-earned retirement from his rather old and crusty parish.
  As is usual in these cases, a locum was sent to cover the transition period....
• Mr. Mitchell: Hi there. How can I help you? Bart: _You're_ the guy who owns the dog?
  Mr. Mitchell: Yep. His name is Sprinkles. Bart: Sprinkles?...
• Linus was the instructor of Hercules in music, but having one day reproved his pupil rather harshly, he roused the anger of Hercules, who struck him with his lyre and killed him.
  -- Bulfinch's Mythology...