Poor Quotes
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Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
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Give what thou canst, without Thee we are poor; And with Thee rich, take what Thou wilt away.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it's just depressing to me. The poor little kids.
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
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They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.
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The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
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In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.
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... frugality makes a poor man rich.
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Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.
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The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.
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The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
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I experienced firsthand what it means to be poor, what it means to go hungry, and that, I think, may be the reason, the root cause of why I'm able to work so hard, even these days.
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain.
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My father worked hard, but we were still very poor; and I didn't want anybody arguing about money, so I became the entertainer, the one who wanted everyone to be happy. I didn't want there to be any problems.
