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A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.
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A poor man is all schemes.
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
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Georges Bernanos
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America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.
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Gloria Steinem
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
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James Baldwin
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As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
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Theodore Parker
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Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind.
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Mike Todd
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Empty pockets make empty heads.
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William Carlos Williams
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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
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John W. Gardner
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Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.
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Thomas Robert Malthus
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
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Benjamin Franklin
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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
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Bible
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He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
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Source Unknown
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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
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Jules Michelet
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Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
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(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
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Josh Billings
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I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
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Archbishop Derek Worlock
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I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.
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John Marquand
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I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
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Melville D. Landon
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I worked myself up from nothing to extreme poverty.
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Groucho Marx
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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John F. Kennedy
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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
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Phaedrus
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In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
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Oscar Wilde
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It is a sin to be poor.
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Charles Fillmore
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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
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Kin Hubbard
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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
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Mother Teresa
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Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
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Groucho Marx
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No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Seneca
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O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
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William Shakespeare
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Oh, God! that bread should be so dear! And flesh and blood so cheap!
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Thomas Hood
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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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Madonna
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
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Thomas Fuller
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Poverty consist in feeling poor.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
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Hebrew Proverb
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
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Sydney Smith
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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
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Poverty is not the root cause of crime.
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Rush Limbaugh
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
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Aristotle
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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Josh Billings
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
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Hector Hugh Munro
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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
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Bertolt Brecht
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
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Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.
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William Pitt
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