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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."

"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."

"The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
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"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
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"To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread."

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."

"You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself."

"Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned."

"There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch."
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