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Quote by James Baldwin
Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensiv

Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

Other quotes by James Baldwin

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention. – James Baldwin

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Failure
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Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. – James Baldwin

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Listening
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Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to ones beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses. – James Baldwin

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Belief
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Poverty is a wonderful thing. It sticks to a man after all his friends have forsaken him. – Proverb

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For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner

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Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake

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Poverty

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

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Everyone has things that they dont love about themselves but I think that as a woman its much healthier and more positive to focus on your good parts and the things you like about yourself, not pick yourself apart. – Miranda Kerr

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