Quote by Josh Billings
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

Other quotes by Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

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Certainty
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It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven. – Josh Billings

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Poverty
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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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Poverty

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

Category:
Poverty

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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Poverty

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

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Poverty

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