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but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for… — Terry Pratchett
School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. — Ivan Illich
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The… — J D Salinger
I guess we're even,Sadie.First,Walt and I rushed off to save you in London.Then,you and Walt rushed off to save me.The only one who got shafted… — Rick Riordan
Even Alexia, spinster that she was, was given an allowance large enough to dress her to the height of fashionâ€” although she did tend to… — Gail Carriger
Did you see that? Buffy just staked that poor vampire. He had yet to even do anything untowared, he just crawled out of his grave… — Lynsay Sands
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is. — Oscar Wilde
.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to… — Danielle Steel
Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We donâ€™t see what we could be. We should… — Mitch Albom
Facing the difficulties, I can choose either to be a poor victim or a great adventurer. — Paulo Coelho
War so conspicuously benefits rich men and kills the poor ones. — Barbara Kingsolver
...the Statue of Liberty's got this invitation: 'Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless--' 'Huddled masses,' said Ira. 'Give me your tired, your… — Neal Shusterman
Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help… — Chuck Palahniuk
Grandma, please. Itâ€™s okay. Dadâ€™s doing a great job. I give him kudos for at least being calm and rational, and not losing his temper… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace… — Chuck Palahniuk
As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and… — Paulo Coelho
The rich...should beg the poor to forgive us for the bread we bring them. Healthy people sometimes feel they need to beg forgiveness too, although… — Jonathan Kozol
Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take it from me.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have… — Anne Frank

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