"Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples."
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"Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!"
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"Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?"
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"Diversification is a surrogate - and a damn poor surrogate - for knowledge, elements of control, and priceconsciousness."
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"No one has ever become poor from giving."
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"Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor."
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"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table."
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"And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word."
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"The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies."
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"Music is the poor man's Parnassus."
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"If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him"
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"The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory."
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"Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor."
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"I can connect with peoples' pain because I was 'po' before I was 'poor'."
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"I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me."
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"Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."
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"...poor people are just as human as anyone else. They have just as much potential as anyone."
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"What a trade! Poor painters! They always wish to be understood, and they are analysed instead."
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"To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it."
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"But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered."
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