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"He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally." »Lawana Blackwell
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"If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living." »Jewish Proverb
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"We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world." »Feltham
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"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place." »Rainer Maria Rilke
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"A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130." »Ernest Leroy Boyer
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"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary." »Jules Feiffer
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"The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality interrupting others sarcasm vanity being a poor listener insincere flattery finding fault challenging others without good cause giving unsolicited advice complaining attitude of superiority envy of others' success poor posture and dress." »Unknown
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"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help." »Jean Kerr
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"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist." »Dom Helder Camara
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"Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries." »Doug Casey, Investment guru; author of "Crisis Investing"
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"If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is poor, not that enjoys little, but he that wants too much. The contented mind wants nothing which it hath not; the covetous mind wants, not only what it hath not, but likewise what it hath." »Francis Quarles
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"poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth." »Sidney Madwed
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"Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! Winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be." »Jim Grue
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"poor are poor because rich are rich." »B. J. Gupta
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"God has always been hard on the poor." »Jean-Paul Marat
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"He who desires is always poor." »Claudianus
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"Bed is the poor man's opera." »Italian Proverb
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"It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor." »Seneca
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"When the rich wage war it's the poor who die." »Jean-Paul Sartre
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!" »Georges Eliot, Middlemarch
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"Children are a poor man's wealth." »Danish proverb
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"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is." »Benjamin Franklin
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"I have such poor vision I can date anybody." »Garry Shandling
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"He alone is poor who does not possess knowledge." »The Talmud
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"One must be poor to know the luxury of giving." »George Eliot
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"To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility." »William Cobbett
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"Hope is the poor man's bread." »George Herbert
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"Be rich to yourself and poor to your friends." »Juvenal
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