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Poor Quotes


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


"The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor."


"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."


"It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher."
Poor,


"Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor."


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


"I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor."


"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."


"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."


"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."
Poor,


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


"The poor North has much to do with slavery. It staggers under its load and smarts under its lash."


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