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John Dryden:And plenty makes us poor.


And plenty makes us poor.
by John Dryden


Henry Ward Beecher:You cannot sift out the poor


You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
by Henry Ward Beecher


Saadi:The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich


The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich.
by Saadi


Euripides:Youth is the best time to be rich, and


Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.
by Euripides


Horace:Pale death, with impartial step, knocks


Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
by Horace


Kin Hubbard:Beauty is only skin deep, but it's


Beauty is only skin deep, but it's avaluable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
by Kin Hubbard


Samuel Johnson:Every man is rich or poor


Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
by Samuel Johnson


Edmund Spenser:It is the mind that maketh good


It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
by Edmund Spenser


Anne Swetchine:We are rich only through what we


We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
by Anne Swetchine


Plato:All men are by nature equal, made all of


All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
by Plato


Theodore Roosevelt:Far better it is to dare


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


Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade:My manner of


My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others! My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I'd not do so.
by Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade


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