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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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A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives. – William James

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. – Proverb

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My poverty is not complete: it lacks me. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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