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

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

Other quotes by Josh Billings

Laughter is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one place. – Josh Billings

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Laughter
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings

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Other Quotes from
Poverty
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers. – William James

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Poverty

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

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Poverty

Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness. – Proverb

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Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. – Eva Perón

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I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. – Stephen King

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My father left… but I tell my mom – and I told my mom this when I was a kid – I said, You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because youre a strong woman. – J. R. Martinez

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There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

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“Therefore” is a word the poet must not know. – André Gide

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Poetry