I should be satisfied with _three_ hundred, but I'll take as much more as I can get.' 'My revered tutor, this is shameless.

I came to pay my respects to a philosopher, and I find a sordid worldling.

Look at me! I am a man of the largest needs, spiritual and physical, yet I make my pittance of four hundred and fifty suffice, and never grumble.

Perhaps you aim at an income equal to my own ?' 'I do! What's four hundred and fifty?
If you were a man of enterprise you would double or treble it.

I put a high value on money.