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"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."

"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."

"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes."

"It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you."

"Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed."

"A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible."
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