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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. — Winston Churchill
All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side… — Elinor Smith
Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. — William Shakespeare
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid. — Patrick Stewart
The poor child was the drudge of the household, and was always in the wrong. He was, however, the most bright and discreet of all… — Charles Perrault
Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness… — Unknown Author
Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Where do people earn the Per Capita Income? More than one poor starving soul would like to know. In our countries, numbers live better than… — Eduardo Galeano
It surprises people that there's actually a very large number of slaves in the world today-our best estimate is 27 million. And that is defining… — Kevin Bales
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking. — William Shakespeare
...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese… — Bernardino Ramazzini
All sedentary workers ... suffer from the itch, are a bad colour, and in poor condition ... for when the body is not kept moving… — Bernardino Ramazzini
Then just live in coexistence. Live the way all poor husbands are living. Show to the world that your wife is so surrendered to you...who… — Rajneesh
Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin
Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born,… — John Clare
Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress. — Unknown Author
... the best way to help the poor is to promote economic growth and job creation — Unknown Author
The full extent of the problem of hunger is not obvious to most of us. We see the homeless, but there are a great number… — Scott Glenn
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau
When we think about millions of hungry children, we don't think about America. We relate the problem to other nations, like Ethiopia, India or Somalia.… — Kristin Davis
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world ... That tsunami is hunger. — Colin Farrell
Every week a tsunami rips through poor towns and villages all over the world. It claims 25,000 lives a day, 175,000 a week. It sweeps… — Colin Farrell
The growing use of biofuel will be an inestimable contribution to the generation of income, social inclusion and reduction of poverty in many poor countries… — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
I have killed, robbed and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine and I would eventually die a… — Sitting Bull
Now what is it moves our very heart, and sickens us so much as cruelty shown to poor brutes? I suppose this: first, that they… — John Henry Newman

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