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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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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. – 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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Poverty
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The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life. – Heinrich Heine

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Poverty

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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Poverty

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design. – Josh Billings

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Poverty

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. – Yiddish Proverb

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Poverty

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Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten. – Albert J. Nock

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Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. – Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, “Chuck Versus the Ring”

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It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. – Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia

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