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title: "2 Poverty Pretense Quotes by 1 author"
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> [It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/it-is-not-poverty-so-much-as-pretense-that-harasses-a-ruined-man-the/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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> [It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/washington-irving/it-is-not-poverty-so-much-as-pretense-that-harasses-a-ruined-man/)

[Washington Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/washington-irving/)

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