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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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"Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!"
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"The streets are a poor kid's PlayStation."
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"If you are financially poor, it is because you have not converted your time into any product."
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"Nothing is interesting other than deleting your name from the book of poverty and misery."
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"Poverty is being single."
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"In the treatment of poverty nationally, one fact stands out: there are twice as many white poor as Negro poor in the United States. Therefore I will not dwell on the experiences of poverty that derive from racial discrimination, but will discuss the poverty that affects white and Negro alike."
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"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."
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"Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos."
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"If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool."
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"Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts."
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"The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind."
Grief
"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."
Poverty
"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use."
Age
"The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude."
Grief
"There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble."
Dignity
"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."
Resilience
"I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories."
Loss
"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."
War
"The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow."
History
"The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible."
Literature
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