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> [It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerome-k-jerome/it-is-easy-enough-to-say-that-poverty-is-no-crime-no-if-it-were-men/)

[Jerome K. Jerome](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerome-k-jerome/)

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> [No one is so rich and powerful that they cannot be punished, and no one is so poor that they cannot be protected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joao-lourenco/no-one-is-so-rich-and-powerful-that-they-cannot-be-punished-and-no/)

[Joao Lourenco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joao-lourenco/)

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