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Francis Bacon

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

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

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

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"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."

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"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."

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

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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."

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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 is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."

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"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."

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"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"

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"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."

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