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Hesiod

"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

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"Potter is jealous of potter, and craftsman of craftsman; and the poor have a grudge against the poor, and the poet against the poet."

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

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

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

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

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

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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."

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

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

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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."

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