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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living.
-Yiddish Proverb
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True poverty does not come from God.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
-English Proverb
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him.
-Proverb
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A poor man is all schemes.
-Proverb
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
-Proverb
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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.
-Proverb
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain - until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
-Jane Addams
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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
-Aristotle
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
-Walter Bagehot
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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
-James Baldwin
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
-Jeremy Bentham
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The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
-John Berger
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
-Georges Bernanos
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The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8
-Bible
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The destruction of the poor is their poverty.
-Bible
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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
-Bible
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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard.
-Bible
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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished.
-Bible
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Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
-Josh Billings
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Remember the poor, it costs nothing.
-Josh Billings
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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
-Josh Billings
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Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.
-William Blake
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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
-W. E. B. Du Bois
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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Books about Poverty
