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

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

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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a days time they will have turned it into a Hell. – Jeremy Bentham

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