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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 am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – 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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Whoever shuts his ears at the cry of the poor, they also shall cry themselves, but not be heard. – Bible

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A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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