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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."
Alfred Hitchcock
"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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"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
Groucho Marx
"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."
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"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
Samuel Richardson
"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."
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"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
James A. Baldwin
"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."
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"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."
Letitia Landon
"Few, save the poor, feel for the poor."
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"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
George Whitefield
"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
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"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
Ray Kroc
"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."
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"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
E. Y. Harburg
"When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which."
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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
Raoul Vaneigem
"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
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"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."
Dorothy Day
"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."
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"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
Wallace Stevens
"Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!"
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"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
Francis Bacon
"Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress."
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"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."
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"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."
Jules Michelet
"He who knows how to be poor knows everything."
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"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
Edmund Waller
"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
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"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
Edward Dyer
"Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store."
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
Kurt Vonnegut
"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."
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"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
Thomas Fuller
"He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much."
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"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
Henri Rousseau
"Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle."
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"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
Alfred Hitchcock
"The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
Samuel Johnson
"Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor."
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"When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have."
Patrick Duncan
"When you're really poor, everything you see is something you can't have."
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
Henry IV
"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."
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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!"
Al Lewis
"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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"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
Gerrit Smith
"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."
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"Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us."
Dan Quayle
"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."
Mason Cooley
"Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
William Shakespeare
"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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