"Better to live hundred years as a millionaire, than one week in poverty!"
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"The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament."
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"Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man."
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"Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary"
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"There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them."
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"All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil."
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"He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption."
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"The main cause of poverty is self-inflicted fear and ignorance."
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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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"Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all."
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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"The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it."
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"Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough."
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"Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses."
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"Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation."
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"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity."
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"Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits."
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"The only place where poverty should be is in museums."
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