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| Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father | | Jean de la Bruyere | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| The mother of revolution and crime is poverty | | Aristotle | |
| The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers | | William James | |
| This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd | | Samuel Johnson | |
| This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd | | Samuel Johnson | |
| Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent | | Plato | |
| 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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