"The poor are the only consistent altruists; they sell all they have and give it to the rich."

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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."

Dan Quayle, American Vice President

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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich."

Naomi Klein, Canadian Journalist

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"I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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

Edmund Waller, English Poet

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"Whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor."

John Ruskin, English Writer

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"Intuition is reason in a hurry."

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"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary. It is the only art which can be practiced at any hour of the day or night, whenever the time and inclination comes, that is your time for reading; in joy or sorrow, health or illness."

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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."

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"Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing."

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"No man is ever old enough to know better."

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"A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children."

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