"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life."
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Source: Honoré de Balzac (2007). “Cesar Birotteau and Gaudissart the Great”, p.317, Wildside Press LLC
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