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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.
Soul
William R. Alger

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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Money
Woody Allen

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
Poverty and The Poor
Aristotle

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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
Poverty and The Poor
James Baldwin

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Hard work brings prosperity; playing around brings poverty.
Work, Hard
Bible

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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
Bible

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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Poverty and The Poor
Josh Billings

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Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
Poverty and The Poor
Bertolt Brecht

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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Poverty and The Poor
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
Desire
Dutch Proverb

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Poverty consist in feeling poor.
Poverty and The Poor
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
Poverty and The Poor
English Proverb

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
Poverty and The Poor
George Farquhar

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Money can't buy poverty.
Money
Marty Feldman

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Reason
Henry Fielding

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Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Laziness
Benjamin Franklin

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Debt is the worst poverty.
Debt
Thomas Fuller

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
Poverty and The Poor
Mahatma Gandhi

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Poverty and The Poor
John W. Gardner

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Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.
Poverty and The Poor
Greek Proverb

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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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An advantage of poverty, your relatives gain nothing by your death.
Relatives
Hebrew Proverb

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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
Poverty and The Poor
Hebrew Proverb

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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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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Fear
Napoleon Hill

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