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Walter Bagehot

"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

Walter Bagehot, English Author
People, Poverty, Want
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"Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell."

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"If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers."

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"You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like."

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"In our leisure we reveal what kind of people we are."

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor
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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

Charles Baudelaire, French Poet
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

Douglas Adams, English Writer
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