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Quote by William James
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who e

We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. – William James

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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out theyve got a second. – William James

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

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Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.” – William James

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Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished. – Bible

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The poor are poor because the rich are rich. – Author Unknown

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Society comprises two classes: those who have more food than appetite, and those who have more appetite than food. РS̩bastien-Roch Nicolas (Chamfort)

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A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. – William Blake

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No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existance. – James Bryce

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