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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."

"Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time."

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever."

"No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time."

"It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind."
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