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| A poor man is shunned by all his relatives - how much more do his friends avoid him! Though he pursues them with pleading, they are nowhere to be found |
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| Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have declared you legally insane in order to gain control of your estate |
| Woody Allen |
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| Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes. |
| Kahlil Gibran |
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| Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society. |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| He is now rising from affluence to poverty. |
| Mark Twain |
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| I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life. |
| Anatole France |
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| I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty. |
| Groucho Marx |
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| If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence. |
| Victor Hugo |
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| If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place. |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches |
| Rainer Maria Rilke |
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| In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of. |
| Confucius |
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