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Edmund Waller

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."

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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 world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."

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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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"A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round."
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