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Daniel Defoe

"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."

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"As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares."

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"America has a unique type of poverty that looks like wealth."

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"Using money in one's attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one's attempt to put an end to xenophobia."

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"Poverty is spiritual halitosis."

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"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."

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"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."

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A.E. Samaan

"Home, home - a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease and smells."

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A.E. Samaan

"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, for me, is synonymous with degradation."

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"I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women."
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"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes."
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"Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could."
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"An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch."
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