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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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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world. – Walter Bagehot

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

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If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb

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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard. – Bible

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