Quotes with beggars

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  • Bertrand Russell Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
    The Conquest Of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Shakespeare Beggars mounted run their horse to death.
    Henry VI 1, 4
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
    Original: Bettler aber sollte man ganz abschaffen! Wahrlich, man ärgert sich ihnen zu geben und ärgert sich ihnen nicht zu geben.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Georges Bernanos God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Carmen Sylva If you could throw as an alms to those who would use it well the time that you fritter away, how many beggars would become rich!
    Carmen Sylva
    Ps. van Elisabeth zu Wied, Queen of Romania (1843 - 1916)
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  • W. H. Auden Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Mary McCarthy The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Abbe Pierre The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
    Julius Caesar II, ii, 30-31
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Octavio Paz Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
    Octavio Paz
    Mexican Poet, Essayist (1914 - 1998)
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