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"Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor."
"Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man's yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor."
"It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them."
"Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty, they merely aspire to escape it."
"Leftovers are less tasty if they were left over by someone else, unless you are poor."
"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name."
"For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!"
"I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty."
"Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty."
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"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."
"As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour."
"I do like a little romance... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that."
"Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable."
"It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution."
"It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men."
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