"Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]"
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"The reasons of the poore weigh not. [The reasons of the poor weigh not.]"
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"With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks."
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"The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all."
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"Only poor men get hanged."
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"Love your life, poor as it is."
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"I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor."
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"A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business"
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"Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low."
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"Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column."
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"I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love."
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"If you were the poor, suffering was your currency."
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"I have seen that women are shut out from every means of earning a living that is really remunerative, crowded into certain narrow walks, which, in consequence, are so thronged that the poor creatures are forced to work for the merest pittance."
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"We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert"
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"Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before."
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"My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits."
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"Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you."
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"Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all."
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"Globalization is a form of totalitarianism... It is the rich who rule, and the poor live as they can."
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"The profession of letters is, after all, the only one in which one can make no money without being ridiculous."
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