Quotes with poor-quality

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  • Mark Twain My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Hannah More My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Emma Thompson My worst quality is impatience.
    Emma Thompson
    British actress and screenwriter (born 1959) (1959 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Ben Bernanke No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bernard Mandeville No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Bertrand Russell No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro No one has ever said it, but how painfully true it is that the poor have us always with them.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Adam Smith No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Cyril Connolly No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Barbara Demick North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Seneca Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • Renata Adler Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell.
    Renata Adler
    American author, journalist, and film (1937 - )
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  • Michel Leiris Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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