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"Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed."
"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks"
"Broke is temporary, poor is eternal."
"Happy people are poor psychologists."
"Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor."
"Affluence creates poverty."
"The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability."
"Above all, let the poor hang up the amulet of temperance in their homes."
"You bear God within you, poor wretch, and know it not."
"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade."
"The poor have much to teach you. You have much to learn from them."
"Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor."
"Great expectations are better than a poor possession."
"It's a poor artist who borrows--a good artist steals."
"If you are ready to wake up, you are going to wake up. If you're not you are going to stay pretending that you are just a poor little me."
"Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back."
"The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich."
"Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious."
"Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings."
"Rich people are poor people with money."
