"I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me."
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"Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift."
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"Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
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"Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor"
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"A poor thing, perhaps, but my own."
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"Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny."
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"Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead. Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief Shore his old thread in twain."
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"There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man."
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"There is no being so poor and so contemptible, who does not think there is somebody still poorer, and still more contemptible."
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"O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other."
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"... frugality makes a poor man rich."
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"A snooze button is a poor substitute for no alarm clock at all."
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"There's no future in being poor."
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"Poor Mary Ann! She gave the guy an inch and now he thinks he's a ruler."
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"It's such a Bore Being always Poor."
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"It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock."
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"If you are poor, you are not likely to live long."
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"I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor."
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"And we were angry and poor and happy, And proud of seeing our names in print."
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"If we ever have children and they become climbers I'll tell them, Stay away from expeditions. They'll make you poor and neurotic."
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