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156 quotesIt is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
Money
Anatole France
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Constant complaint is the poorest sort of pay for all the comforts we enjoy.
Complaints and Complaining
Benjamin Franklin
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
Contentment
Benjamin Franklin
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Poverty and The Poor
Benjamin Franklin
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He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
Appreciation
Thomas Fuller
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He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.
Promises
Thomas Fuller
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Poor men's reasons are not heard.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Fuller
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
Wealth
John Kenneth Galbraith
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The walls are the publishers of the poor.
Writers and Writing
Eduardo Galeano
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You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it.
Inferiority
W. S. Gilbert
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
Heaven
Emma Goldman
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!
Human Nature
Emma Goldman
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Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law.
Law and Lawyers
Oliver Goldsmith
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Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, that found me poor at first, and keep me so.
Drugs
Oliver Goldsmith
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Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
Poverty and The Poor
Thomas Gray
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Cynicism is cheap -- you can buy it at any Monoprix store -- it's built into all poor-quality goods.
Cynics and Cynicism
Graham Greene
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He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
Chance
Edward F. Halifax
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Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
Time and Time Management
Lucille S. Harper
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The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
Poverty and The Poor
Bob Harrington
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Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known.
Dress
Michael Harrington
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You lose your manners when you're poor.
Poverty and The Poor
Lillian Hellman
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The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
Advice
Sir Arthur Helps
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It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.
Inferiority
George Herbert
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Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
Poverty and The Poor
Don Herold
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A man isn't poor if he can still laugh.
Laughter
Raymond Hitchcock
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun