• Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life.

  Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker 1813-1887
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1. practical
2. sermons
3. house

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Poverty is very good in poems, but it is very bad in a house. It is very good in maxims and sermons, but it is very bad in practical life. by : Henry Ward Beecher

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