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• Oh, princes thrive on caviar, the poor on whey and curds, / And politicians, I infer, must eat their windy words. / It's crusts that feed the virtuous, it's cake that comforts sinners, / But writers live on bread and praise at Literary Dinners.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Cake, Comfort, Caviar

  Phyllis McGinley (1951). “A Short Walk from the Station”

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• I've always thought the law ought to put on spectacles, it has mighty poor eyesight once in a while.

  Margaret Deland

  Law, Poor Eyesight, Ought

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• ... is there anything more unjust than to build gold and brass and iron on poor, well-meaning clay, -- and then blame the clay when the whole image falls into dust?

  Margaret Deland

  Fall, Iron, Dust

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.310, Wildside Press LLC

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• It seems to me that the earth belongs to God who made it and entrusted it to men as a perpetual home. But it cannot have been part of His plan that some men should be ill with overfeeding and that others should die of starvation. No matter what anyone can say they cannot prevent me from feeling sad and angry when I see a beggar crying at a rich man's door.

  George Sand

  Home, Men, Doors

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• We know by now how to photograph poor people. What we don't know is how to photograph affluence - whose other face is poverty.

  Dorothea Lange

  People, Poverty, Faces

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• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

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• My mother imparted her daily truths so she could help my older brothers and me rise above our circumstances. We lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn't think we were poor. My bowl was always full, three five-course meals every day, beginning with a soup full of mysterious things I didn't want to know the names of.

  Amy Tan

  Family, Mother, Brother

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.89, Penguin

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• Since, by your greatness, you
  Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
  In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
  As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
  The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Greatness, Men, Clouds

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• far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

  Isabel Allende

  Country, Home, Tree

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

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• Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
  Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
  Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
  The roughest waves of human destiny
  Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
  Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Cheer, Blessing, Destiny

  Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.461

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• The crisis in America that we barely notice anymore is that we've become two nations - divided by poverty, opportunity, and race. It's like a neighbor's car alarm that we don't hear anymore because it rings so often.

  Arianna Huffington

  Opportunity, Two, America

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• Diamonds are the tears of the poor.

  Helen McCloy

  Jewels, Tears, Rich

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• an imitator is always a poor example.

  Marion Davies

  Example, Imitation, Imitator

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• Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Spring, Men, Poverty

  Margaret Oliphant (1873). “Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life : in 2 Volumes”, p.34

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• Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

  James Baker

  Military, Thinking, Sight

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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Strong, War, Teaching

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• The great men of antiquity were poor.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Great Men, Antiquity

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• Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

  Anita Roddick

  Names, Important, Rich

  Anita Roddick (2001). “Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world”, Conari Pr

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• Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Father, Bread, Torah

  Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”

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• Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.

  Anzia Yezierska

  People, Poverty, Rich

  Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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• Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. ... poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time.

  Audre Lorde

  Art, Writing, Typewriters

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• We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although as poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.

  William Booth

  Beer, Men, Light

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• Think not you are charitable if the love of Jesus and His brethren be not purely the motive of your gifts. Alas! you might not give your superfluities, but "bestow all your goods to feed the poor;" you might even "give your body to be burned" for them, and yet be utterly destitute of charity, if self-seeking, self-pleasing or self-ends guide you; and guide you they must, until the love of God be by the Holy Ghost shed abroad in your heart.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• The world's fat is badly divided.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Rich, Fats

  Martha Gellhorn (2015). “The View From The Ground”, p.79, Granta Books

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• Savings will not make you rich. Only canny investments do that. The role of savings is to keep you from becoming poor.

  Jane Bryant Quinn

  Money, Becoming, Roles

  Jane Bryant Quinn (2009). “Making the Most of Your Money Now: The Classic Bestseller Completely Revised for the New Economy”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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