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| Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father |
| Jean de la Bruyere |
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| Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor |
| Jane Austen |
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| The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires. |
| Seneca |
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| The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. |
| George Bernard Shaw |
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| The mother of revolution and crime is poverty |
| Aristotle |
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| The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton |
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| The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers |
| William James |
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| This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent |
| Plato |
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| Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. |
| Jean Cocteau |
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