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“A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.”

“Most poor people do not really aspire to end poverty; they merely aspire to escape it.”

“Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.”

“The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.”

“Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.”

“Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.”

“Whether it is big or small, the size of a poor man’s yard incessantly reminds him that he is poor.”

“If there were something that Mother Nature or God could do with money, She or He would have sold immortality to the rich a long time ago.”

“It is in the best interest of the rich to preserve poverty.”

“Poverty does not always prevent a rich person from dating someone who is poor, unless the man is the one who is poor.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.”

“Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.”

“In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Most adults are knowledgeable to a child, but ignorant for their age.”

“You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.”

“We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates.”

“For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.”

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Book:The Use and Misuse of Children

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.”

Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

“Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is still a prince.”

“Taking good care of your husband or wife is the best way to thank their parent or parents for having taken good care of them.”

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.”

“More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.”

“Some of the men who we are openly praising are secretly sleeping with their own daughters … without their consent.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”

“Some people respect some people only because some people respect them.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“As an unavoidable result of the inevitable loss of some physical and/or some mental abilities, many a man who has been alive for many years has become a boy again.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.”

“We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.”

“Whenever He answers prayers, God usually prioritizes those by people who, instead of their mouths, have prayed with their hands and/or feet.”

“As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Most human beings strongly believe that money is way less important than the life of a human being, but in reality five hundred, fifty, or even five dollars are way more important to the lives of most human beings than the lives of most human beings.”

“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”

“We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.”

“The worst thing about our cultures, education systems, and religions is that they make us take life seriously.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.”

“Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.”

“Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that.”

“The second best time to die is while sleeping. The best is while laughing.”

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Author:Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Every sane toddler is an aspiring comedian.”

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“Sixty seconds of laughter is way more pleasurable than sixty days of happiness alone.”

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“Having a funny laugh is in most cases a consolation prize for not being funny.”

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“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”

Source: The Use and Misuse of Children

“Some people would have killed themselves and/or someone else if they were single; and some people would not have done that.”

“He who is jealous is better off not dating someone who is bisexual.”

“Most women sell sex; most of them just don’t take cash (nor do they each sell to more than one ‘client’ at a time).”

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P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound AphorismsRelated source material

The Use and Misuse of ChildrenRelated source material

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-upsRelated source material

On Friendship: A Satirical EssayRelated source material

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