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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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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal."
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"Though I be poor, I'm honest."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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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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"He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall have as much again, and ten times more."
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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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"Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall and run the delegates."
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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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"As a rule, our largest cities are the worst governed."
Cities
"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
"Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers."
Aristocracy
"There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken."
Earth
"The city is the nerve center of our civilization. It is also the storm center."
Civilization
"We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources."
Development
"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
American
"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
"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."
Business
"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."
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