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'At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge,' said the gentleman, taking up a pen, 'it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. ... We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices.' |
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- Charles Dickens
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. |
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- Colette
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A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. |
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- Albert Einstein
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A poor surgeon hurts 1 person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130. |
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- Ernest Leroy Boyer
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. |
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- W. C. Fields
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Alas, poor Yorick I knew him Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy... |
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- William Shakespeare
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Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come. |
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- William Shakespeare
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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. |
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- Eva Pern
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
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- Charlie McCarthy
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company. |
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- Jerome K. Jerome
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