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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."
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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."
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"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"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."
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"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
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"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
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"And except on a certain kind of winter evening-six-thirty in the Seventies, say, already dark and bitter with a wind off the river, when I would be walking very fast toward a bus and would look in the bright windows of brownstones and see cooks working in clean kitchens and and imagine women lighting candles on the floor above and beautiful children being bathed on the floor above that-except on nights like those, I never felt poor; I had the feeling that if I needed money I could always get it."
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"Poverty is the frontier we have to be able to cross."
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"The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear."
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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
Nature
"All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have."
Gratitude
"In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled."
Trouble
"Pride the first peer and president of hell."
Vice
"'Tis no sin to cheat the devil."
Devil
"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
Justice
"Necessity makes an honest man a knave."
Morality
"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."
Will
"The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late."
Man
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