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"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."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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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."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
Living

"The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil."
Evil

"The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
People

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."
Fear

"It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
Glory

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
Power

"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."
Man

"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."
Adversity

"Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord."
Health

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
Education
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