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"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."
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"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."
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"In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise."
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