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Poor Quotes
"The world is richer than ever, and the gaps between rich and poor are wider."
17
"The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor."
Poor,
10
"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
9
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
9
"They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards."
9
"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
Poor,
8
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
8
"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."
Poor,
8
"I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else."
7
"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
Poor,
7
"Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound."
Poor,
6
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
6
"The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there."
6
"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."
Poor,
6
"It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
Poor,
5
"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."
5
"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
Poor,
5
"No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings."
Poor,
5
"In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor."
Poor,
4
"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."
4
"Bush is a very poor impromptu speaker. He does fine in small groups but when speaking without a script in front of large groups or answering questions he wasn't prepped for, he has problems."
4
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
4
"Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts."
4
"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."
4
"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
4
"If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric."
Poor,
4
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