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Quote by Walter Bagehot
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. – Walter Bagehot

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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights — the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others. – Walter Bagehot

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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. – Walter Bagehot

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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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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

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The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. – Eva Perón

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The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. – William Shakespeare

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