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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."
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"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
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"And plenty makes us poor."
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"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
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"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
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"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical."
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"It is foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend as upon the chastity of a wife."
Friendship
"Silence propagates itself and the longer talk has been suspended the more difficult it is to find anything to say."
Communication
"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
Man
"Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in a few words.We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."
Wisdom
"If the man who turnips cries Cry not when his father dies 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father."
Emotion
"No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction."
Money
"Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
Happiness
"No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
Awareness
"The true art of memory is the art of attention."
Art
"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Humor
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