"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Alfred Hitchcock, English Director

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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

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

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."

"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

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"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

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"I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions."

"Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist."

"The wildest colts make the best horses."

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."

"All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."

"Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends."