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• What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Struggle, Long Ago

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• If you want to be rich watch what rich people do everyday and do it. And watch what poor people do and don't do it.

  Les Brown

  People, Everyday, Watches

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• All the wants which disturb human life, which make us uneasy to ourselves, quarrelsome with others, and unthankful to God, which weary us in vain labors and foolish anxieties, which carry us from project to project, from place to place in a poor pursuit of we don't know what, are the wants which neither God, nor nature, nor reason hath subjected us to, but are solely infused into us by pride, envy, ambition, and covetousness.

  William Law

  Ambition, Pride, Envy

  William Law, P. G. Stanwood (1978). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life ; The Spirit of Love”, p.153, Paulist Press

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• And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour?

  Edward Young

  Eternity, Hours, Bounty

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.3

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• A poor woman from Manchester, on being taken to the seaside, is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

  John Lubbock

  Taken, Sea, Firsts

  John Lubbock (1913). “The Pleasures of the Life”

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• I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

  William Congreve

  Heaven, Fool, Helping

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.6

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• A man who doesn't make you feel special, wanted or important would make a very poor husband.

  Jeanne Phillips

  Husband, Women, Special

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• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  Edward Young

  Men, August, Deities

  Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.9

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• Youth is not rich in time; it may be poor; Part with it as with money, sparing; pay No moment but in purchase of its worth, And what it's worth, ask death-beds; they can tell.

  Edward Young

  Pay, Bed, May

  Edward Young, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young”, p.77

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• Poor in abundance, famish'd at a feast.

  Edward Young

  Abundance, Discontent

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.161

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• Who, for the poor renown of being smart, Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

  Edward Young

  Brother, Smart, Heart

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.358

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• Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

  Francis Bacon

  Lying, Taken, Men

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

  Arthur Young

  Class, Idiot, Knows

  "The Affordable Care Act Will Raise Wages" by Mary Manning Cleveland, www.huffingtonpost.com. Febriary 10, 2014.

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• Failure means that you would not, or could not, pay for success. Success is a matter of sale. It can (most often) be bought by a large outlay--of hard forethought--of pains--of steadiness--of the golden wisdom coined from experience. But the figure is too high for most of us. We are too poor, or too slothful, to bring the price.

  Charles Buxton

  Pain, Failure, Mean

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• What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain­slack brain workers, nor heart­sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all - the realisation at last of the meaning of the word 'commonwealth.'

  William Morris

  Mean, Heart, Men

  "How I Became a Socialist". Justice newspaper, www.marxists.org. June 16, 1894.

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• A very poor man may be said in some sense to have a demand for a coach and six; he might like to have it; but his demand is not an effectual demand, as the commodity can never be brought to market in order to satisfy it.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Order, Demand

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.59, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Rich and great people can take care of themselves; but the poor and defenceless - the men with small cottages and large families - the men who must work six days every week if they are to live in anything like comfort for a week, - these men want defenders; they want men to maintain their position in Parliament; they want men who will protest against any infringement of their rights.

  John Bright

  Men, Rights, People

  Speech at his Durham election in July 1843. "The Life Of John Bright". Book by G. M. Trevelyan, p. 100, 1913.

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• When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

  John Wesley

  Crowns, Wreaths, Piety

  John Wesley (1797). “A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition”, p.4

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• And for the authentical truth of either person or actions, who (worth the respecting) will expect it in a poem, whose subject is not truth, but things like truth? Poor envious souls they are that cavil at truth's want in these natural fictions; material instruction, elegant and sententious excitation to virtue, and deflection from her contrary, being the soul, limbs, and limits of an authentical tragedy.

  George Chapman

  Soul, Tragedy, Fiction

  George Chapman (1874). “The Works of George Chapman: Plays”, p.178

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• Grind the faces of the poor.

  Isaiah

  Poverty, Faces, Grind

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• Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Writing, Men, Knights

  1941 The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, ch.1.

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• Nothing could be more stupid than for the communications commission to give to people who handle the means of broadcasting the inventing of what to broadcast, and then, disturbed at the poor quality, to worry about censorship.

  Paul Goodman

  Stupid, Communication, Mean

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.8, New York Review of Books

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• For the poor any choice was a gift with two faces.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Two, Choices, Poverty

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.777, Pan Macmillan

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• Whether they be old or young, rich or poor, high or low, wise or foolish, ignorant or learned, every individual is seen to be strongly actuated by a desire to be seen, heard, talked of, approved and respected... a passion for distinction.

  John Adams

  Happiness, Success, Wise

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.176, Hackett Publishing

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• Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain the poor from attacking the rich, and the idle from usurping on the industrious; but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, to countenance the majority in dividing all the property among them, or at least, in sharing it equally with its present possessors.

  John Adams

  Real, Long, Liberty

  John Adams (2015). “The Works of John Adams Vol. 6: Defence of the Constitution IV, Discourses on Davila”, p.11, Jazzybee Verlag

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