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Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor. — Alexander Pope
A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare. — William Henry Davies
Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our… — Mathieu Kerekou
Without greater support for childcare, parents of young children may be forced to choose cheaper, poor quality care for their children or fail to provide… — Tim Johnson
People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just… — Michael Harrington
Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in the convention hall… — Stanley Marcus
The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests… — Unknown Author
We spend more on cows than the poor. — Gordon Brown
That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old… — Michael Harrington
Clothes make the poor invisible. America has the best-dressed poverty the world has ever known. — Michael Harrington
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions… — David Kirk
Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle. — Henri Rousseau
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that… — Rose Wilder Lane
Democracies are poor breeding grounds for terrorism and war. — Adam Schiff
In 1970 I realized that there was negligible risk from x-rays but many radiographs had poor image quality so that the risk from a false… — John Cameron
In such a case, it would be almost sure of success, if the active members of a society established for that purpose, were inclined to… — Joseph Lancaster
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance,… — Albert Claude
Washington is a great international city and in the congregation we have people who are rich and poor, black and white, and from every part… — James Green Somerville

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