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I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by acciden

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

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There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. – Josh Billings

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Worry
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The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod. – Josh Billings

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Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

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The poor will always be with you. John 12: 8 – Bible

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

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau

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