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

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

Other quotes by Josh Billings

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear. – Josh Billings

Category:
Fear
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Josh Billings
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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

Category:
Certainty
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Josh Billings
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Other Quotes from
Poverty
category

Every man has a right to be poor. – Richard Jefferies

Category:
Poverty

Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished. – Bible

Category:
Poverty

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. – Sydney Smith, His Wit and Wisdom, 1900

Category:
Poverty

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain – until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. – Jane Addams

Category:
Poverty

Random Quotes

Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key. – Tom Colicchio

Category:
Learning

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar. – Franklin Pierce Adams

Category:
Inflation

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. – Zora Neale Hurston

Category:
Courage

As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. – Voltaire

Category:
Humankind