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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."
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"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation."
"No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us."
"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity."
"Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business."
"Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home."
"The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes."
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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end."
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