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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 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

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Certainty
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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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Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. – James Baldwin

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Poverty

To a man with an empty stomach food is God. – Gandhi

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

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The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. Its about what generates money, not about what benefits the people. – Ziggy Marley

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I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love with you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne, letter to wife Sophia, 5 December 1839

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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art. – Margaret Oliphant

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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. – Epicurus

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