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"The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor."
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right!"
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"I am a poor hater."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
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"I think I'm a very poor piano player."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself."
State
"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake."
Change
"The city has become a serious menace to our civilization... It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant."
Civilization
"The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor."
Poor
"The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Saxon is being schooled."
History
"It may be easily shown, and is of no small significance, that the two great ideas of which the Anglo-Saxon is the exponent are having a fuller development in the United States than in Great Britain."
Development
"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."
Civilization
"There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power."
Life
"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."
Cities
"Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty."
Government
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