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Slow rises worth, by poverty depressed:
(Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), British writer. Poverty in London (l. 177). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse. Sir Arthur Quille, ed. (1948) Oxford University Press.)
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Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.
([H.H. (Hector Hugh) Munro] Saki (1870-1916), Scottish author. The Baroness, in "Esmι," The Chronicles of Clovis (1911).)
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In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
(Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904), Russian author, playwright. Letter, February 23, 1890, to his editor and friend, A.S. Suvorin. Complete Works and Letters in Thirty Volumes, Letters, vol. 4, p. 24, "Nauka" (1976).)
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Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.
(Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), U.S. birth control advocate. My Fight for Birth Control, ch. 1 (1931).
Sanger, one of eleven children in a financially stressed family, became the first prominent advocate of birth control and of the dissemination (then illegal) of birth control information.)
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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 (1842-1910), U.S. psychologist, philosopher. "The Value of Saintliness," lectures 1415, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902).)
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There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
(Titus Livius (Livy) (59 B.C.-A.D. 17), Roman historian. Histories, XXXIV, 4.)
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Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered me.
(Countee Cullen (1903-1946), U.S. poet. Saturday's Child (l. 11-12). . .
My Soul's High Song; the Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Ι Gerald Early, ed. (1991) Doubleday.)
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"It's a wery remarkable circumstance, sir", said Sam, "that poverty and oysters seems to go together."
(Charles Dickens (1812-1870), British novelist. Sam Weller in The Pickwick Papers, ch. 22, p. 301 (1837).)
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