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Poverty is the step-mother of genius. - Josh Billings

Poverty is the step-mother of genius. – Josh Billings

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Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland. – Josh Billings

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

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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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