"Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness."
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"I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
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"There is a difference between being poor and being broke. Broke is temporary, and poor is eternal."
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"The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer."
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"A man is a poor creature compared to a woman."
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"The difference between the rich and the poor is that the rich have learned to recognize the value of their thoughts."
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"If you were born poor, it's not your fault. But if you die poor it is."
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"It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand."
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"When the Kiwis ran onto the field we could see the poor bastards were shitting themselves."
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"O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."
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"To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith."
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"It's a poor rule that won't work both ways."
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"To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless."
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"Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer."
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"You can't help the poor by being one of them."
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"It's easier to ask for money from the poor than from the wealthy."
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"It is the first duty of every man not to be poor."
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"Poverty can lead to tyranny. Capitolism creates freedom. If the poor had a better image of the rich they could be just like them."
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"We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet."
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"To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime"
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