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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One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. – Josh Billings

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings

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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way. – Josh Billings

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Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are born to Sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night. – William Blake

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

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