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

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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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I havent got as much money as some folks, but Ive got as much impudence as any of them, and thats the next thing to money. – Josh Billings

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There are two kinds of fools: those who cant change their opinions and those who wont. – Josh Billings

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Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. – Josh Billings

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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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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 not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is. – English Proverb

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Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. – Proverb

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