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Feeding the starving poor only increases their number. |
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- Ben Bova
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Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms. |
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- Robert Green Ingersoll
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Fr., I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. |
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- King Henry IV of France
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Give me neither poverty nor riches. |
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- Proverbs 30.8 Bible
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Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Engrved on Statue of Liberty |
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- Emma Lazarus
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Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls Who steals my purse steals trash 'tis something, nothing 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him And makes me poor indeed. |
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- William Shakespeare
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He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich. |
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- Proverbs 104 Bible
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He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally. |
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- Lawana Blackwell
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He was my friend, faithful, and just to meBut Brutus says, he was ambitious,And Brutus is an honorable man.He hath brought many captives home to Rome,Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill.Did this in Caesar seem ambitiousWhen the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept.Ambition should me made of sterner stuff,Yet Brutus says, he was ambitiousAnd Brutus is an honorable man. |
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- William Shakespeare
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He who desires is always poor. |
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- Claudianus
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