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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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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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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty

"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information

"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization

"Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable."
Evil

"Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another."
Reason

"Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism."
Criticism

"The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race."
Trust

"I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual."
Faith

"Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch."
Faith

"One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions."
Truth
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