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"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
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"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."

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"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."
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