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66 quotesIn America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
Poverty and The Poor
Herbert Clark Hoover
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A person born with an instinct for poverty.
Poetry and Poets
Elbert Hubbard
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It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Happiness
Kin Hubbard
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This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
Poverty and The Poor
Samuel Johnson
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.
Crime and Criminals
Jean De La Bruyere
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Ridicule
Jean De La Bruyere
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There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty.
Money
Joe E. Lewis
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
Poverty and The Poor
Rush Limbaugh
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
Advantage
Sophia Loren
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Robert Malthus
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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Groucho Marx
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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Groucho Marx
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken
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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.
Poverty and The Poor
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Luxury
Charles De Montesquieu
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Luxury
Hannah More
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Mother Teresa
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
Poverty and The Poor
Hector Hugh Munro
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Poverty and The Poor
P. J. O'Rourke
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Poverty and The Poor
Theodore Parker
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Short of genius a rich man cannot even imagine poverty.
Wealth
Charles Peguy
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Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty and The Poor
William Pitt
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Poverty, of course, is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
Poverty and The Poor
William Pitt
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With one hand he put a penny in the urn of poverty, and with the other took a shilling out.
Landlords
Robert Pollok
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun