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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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It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash. – Josh Billings

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God
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Josh Billings
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

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

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

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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them. – Bill Vaughan

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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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The love of evil is the root of all money. – Proverb

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What you say about this world I do not quite agree with I think it a very good world, and only requires a person to be reasonable in his expectations, and not to trust too much to others. – William John Wills

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Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America. – Isaac Mizrahi

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