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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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it. – Walter Bagehot

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

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

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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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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 is the parent of revolution and crime. – Aristotle

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