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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
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I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor. -George Bernard Shaw
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It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Seneca
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The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.

John F. Kennedy
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If rich people could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. -Yiddish proverb
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

Henry Ford
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F. Kennedy
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Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. -Benjamin Franklin
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A poor person is often worthy.

Irish Proverb
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I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

Oprah Winfrey
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another. -Madonna
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Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare
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How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees.

William Shakespeare
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Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. -Horace Mann
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There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.

Seneca
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It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Charles Dickens
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The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. -Ann Landers
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Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what's begun in anger ends in shame.

Benjamin Franklin
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Poor men seek meat for their stomach, rich men stomach for their meat.

English Proverb
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. -Benjamin Franklin
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If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Charles Darwin
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The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor.

Dutch Proverb
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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. -Aesop
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Lewis Carroll
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The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

G. K. Chesterton
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it. -G. K. Chesterton
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Poor little men, poor little cocks! As soon as they're old enough, they swell their plumage to be conquerors. If they only knew that it's enough to be just a little bit wounded and sad in order to obtain everything without fighting for it.

Jean Anouilh
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There are 200 million poor in the world who would gladly take the vow of poverty if they could eat, dress and have a home like I do.

Fulton J. Sheen
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A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot. -German Proverb
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