Quotes with poverty-related

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  • Jerome K. Jerome It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
    Jerome K. Jerome
    British Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright (1859 - 1927)
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  • Kin Hubbard It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bill Pascrell It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
    Bill Pascrell
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Asa Gray It remains to consider what attitude thoughtful men and Christian believers should take respecting them, and how they stand related to beliefs of another order.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bono It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Northrop Frye Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.
    Northrop Frye
    Canadian literair criticus (1912 - 1991)
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  • Plutarch Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Hubert Humphrey Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Abigail Van Buren Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Groucho Marx Look at me. I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Hannah More Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Marty Feldman Money can't buy poverty.
    Marty Feldman
    British actor and comedian (1934 - 1982)
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  • Woody Allen Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Antonio Porchia My poverty is not complete: it lacks me.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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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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  • Henry Fielding Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bill Dedman New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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