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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

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Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the battle field. – James Baldwin

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

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The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. – Willem de Kooning

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