"The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows."
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"Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?"
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"Being poor is not an indication of potential or worth. It’s a lack of resources."
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"Better a good journalist than a poor assassin."
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"Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little."
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"And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
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"It is but a poor eloquence which only shows that the orator can talk."
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"It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise."
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"The poorest of the poor are those who feel that they are unloved."
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"I was very poor and I was a waitress, and it's hard to be a poor waitress in New York."
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"Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats."
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"Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, "not in my backyard.""
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"Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"
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"We were so poor my daddy unplugged the clocks when we went to bed."
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"Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn't necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that."
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"The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous."
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"You can't help the poor by becoming one of them."
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"The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it."
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"Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."
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"The poor are only they who feel poor."
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