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Poverty

«The tax collector must love poor people - he's creating so many of them»
«To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.»
«Thrift shop popularity parallels increased poverty.»
Author: Martin Dansky (Actor, Artist, Writer) | About: Poverty
«To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuffbox, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back»
«The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.»
Author: W. R. Inge | About: Poverty
«To have nothing is not poverty»
Author: Latin Proverb | About: Poverty
«The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.»
«This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,- Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | About: Poverty | Keywords: depress, mournful
«The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers»
«True poverty does not come from God.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb | About: Poverty