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

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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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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."

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"I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better."

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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."

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"Poor fellow, he suffers from files."

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