#expense

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way. ↗

— Gil Amelio

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Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ↗

— Cato

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The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ↗

— Josh Billings

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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else. ↗

— Bette Davis

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Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year. ↗

— Danny Boyle

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It was appointed by law in Athens, that the obsequies of the citizens who fell in battle should be performed at the public expense, and in the most honorable manner. ↗

— Edward Everett

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The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. ↗

— Bruce Henderson

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