"He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed."
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"There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich."
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"The beatitudes say, "Blessed are the poor". They don't say, "Blessed are those who care for the poor.""
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"Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one"
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"Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community."
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"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."
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"Poverty consist in feeling poor."
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"Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action."
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"What you don’t know keeps you poor."
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"Success is a poor teacher"
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"Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist."
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"It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor."
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"Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it."
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"Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs."
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"If you want to help the poor, don't be poor"
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"It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more succesfull than ourselves"
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"Go to the poor there you will find God."
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"The poor and the middle class work for money. The rich have money work for them."
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"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."
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"As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg"
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