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• I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

  Frederick Marryat

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• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• I am more poor than you think.

  Frederik Meijer

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• It is increasingly rare for many of us…to believe that people can be poor, but honest, poor but deserving of respect. Poverty is no longer blamed on anyone but the poor themselves. Contempt for the poor has become a virtue.

  John Joseph O'Connor

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• The poor aren’t defeated. We’re domesticated.

  Victor LaValle

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  But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I lay them at your feet… Tread softly; for you tread on my dreams.

  John Keats

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• Poor lawyers, like poor paintings, are dear at any price.

  James Whistler

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  No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

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• What the gods keep for the poor, no man can destroy.

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• I’ll always be American in my world view and allegiance. American in the naive way I go to other countries and tell them how they should treat their poor or clean their water.

  Eddie Huang

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• I have very poor eyesight, and I can’t imagine a world without my glasses or contacts.

  Ellen Hollman

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• Poor Harper Seven Beckham, having to live with that name all her life. It’s the Boy Named Sue syndrome; at the very least it will toughen her up.

  Simon Hoggart

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• And we’re in the middle of a ‘perfect storm.’ These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

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• It’s not hard to marginalize people when they’ve already done it to themselves.

  Seanan McGuire

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  If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

  Charles Darwin

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• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 30.

  Ernest L. Boyer

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• Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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• I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

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• The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

  Alfred Hitchcock

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• We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.

  Lionel Trilling

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