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"Poverty is a dish best served with Potato Soup."

"When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then."

"That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous."

"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves."

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."

"And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well."

"Most people die, living their life paycheck to paycheck,trying to stretch out each dollar, as like a roll of toilet paper. Toiling each tissue, never quite wiping away all the shit from their asses, where the world always takes what little they flush, back into its deprived system, always hungry."

"Juice is a poor man's dessert."

"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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"Never think that you're not good enough. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning."

"A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit."

"The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder."

"I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse."

"Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures."

"Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early."

"It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything."
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