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Money is a poor man's credit card.
Debt
Marshall Mcluhan

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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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He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Poverty and The Poor
Jules Michelet

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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
Poverty and The Poor
George Moore

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No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
Riches
Hector Hugh Munro

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It is harder for a poor man to be successful than it is for a rich man.
Success
Gregory Nunn

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Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?
Wealth
Laurence J. Peter

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In a change of masters the poor change nothing except their master's name.
Poverty and The Poor
Phaedrus

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture.
Business
Titus Maccius Plautus

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The land too poor for any other crop, is best for raising men.
Farming and Farmers
R. Pocock

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But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
Wealth
Alexander Pope

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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.
Devil
Alexander Pope

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A rich child often sits in a poor mothers lap.
Children
Proverb

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Pay beforehand if you would have your work poorly done.
Quality
Proverb

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The poor man's budget is full of schemes.
Money
Proverb

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The poorest He that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest He.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Raineborough

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Children are poor men's riches.
Children
John Ray

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Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Inheritance
Ruth E. Renkel

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We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
Automobiles
Will Rogers

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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
Animals
Bertrand Russell

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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Generosity
Jean-Paul Sartre

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When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.
Poverty and The Poor
Jean-Paul Sartre

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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Appreciation
Seneca

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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
Poverty and The Poor
Seneca

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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
Poverty and The Poor
Seneca

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[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun