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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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To turn away a guest is poorest poverty;
To bear with fools is mightiest might.
(Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.), Tamil sage, poet. repr. Calcutta, Y.M.C.A. Publishing House (1958). The Sacred Kural, translated from the Tirukkural of Tiruvalluvar by H.A. Popley, vs. XVI.3 (1931).
Legends say that the author was either a Jain monk or a Hindu outcaste priest.)
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
(J.P. (James Patrick) Donleavy (b. 1926), U.S. author. The Ginger Man, ch. 2 (1955).)
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"The idols have seen lots of poverty,
Snakes and gold and lice,
But not the truth...."
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "On the Road Home.")
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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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Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty—the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection, New York (1987).)
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
(H.L. (Henry Lewis) Mencken (1880-1956), U.S. journalist. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebooks, no. 273 (1956).)
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
(Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), British author. "Cockneys and Their Jokes," All Things Considered (1908).)
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