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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the wo

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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Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. – William James

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It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again. – William James

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True poverty does not come from God. – Yiddish Proverb

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. – Henry David Thoreau

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A poor man is all schemes. – Proverb

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