1714 – 1763 · United Kingdom
English writer. When not writing he is said to have spent much of his time tending his garden. His works include The Schoolmistress and The Judgment of Hercules.
“구두쇠는 외견상 가난함으로써 부유하게 된다; 사치스러운 사람은 외견상 부유함으로써 가난하게 된다.”
— 가장 많이 사랑받은 명언
“A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.”