"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word."
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"I consciously choose the dog's path through life. I shall be poor; I shall be a painter."
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"The rich have a passion for bargains as lively as it is pointless."
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"It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be."
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"Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet."
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"We must see Christ in the disturbing disguise of the poor."
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"We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus."
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"Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things."
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"If we keep kicking the can down the road, if we follow the president's lead or if we pass the Senate budget, then we will have a debt crisis. Then everybody gets hurt. You know who gets hurt first and the worst in a debt crisis? The poor, the elderly. That's what we're trying to prevent from happening."
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"Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly."
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"I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration."
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"Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast."
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"And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?"
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"My parents and I were all afraid of being poor - really poor."
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"My daddy's response [to fear of being poor] was to never talk about money or what might happen if it ran out."
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"The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic."
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"Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty."
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"The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off."
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"One of the things that has always surprised me is why Americans are so patient. Because they have seen not just that freedom has come, what they have seen is that there are some who used to be poor who are very rich, stinking rich some of them."
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"I've been to those places where it's 'poor, pitiful me.'"
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