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Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“It is with honesty in one particular as with wealth,--those that have the thing care less about the credit of it than those who have it not. No poor man can well afford to be thought so, and the less of honesty a finished rogue possesses the less he can afford to be supposed to want it.”

Men Want Wells Care Wealth Poor Honesty Particular Credit Finished Poor Man Rogues

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.”

Mind Mean Soul Poor Weak Satisfied Contentment Wealthy Affluent

Book:Tupper's complete poetical works: containing

Source: Tupper's complete poetical works: containing

“Some people take pleasure in regaling one and all with details of their poor health. They are happy to give an organ recital to anyone who will listen.”

People Giving Pleasure Poor Health Details Complaining Organs Recitals Poor Health

Book:The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

Source: The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually

“Pity the poor millionaire. He'll never know the thrill of paying that final installment.”

Knows Poor Finals Pity Thrill Millionaire

Book:Since You Ask Me

Source: Since You Ask Me

“In a composite Nation like ours, made up of almost every variety of the human family, there should be, as before the Law, no rich, no poor, no high, no low, no black, no white, but one country, one citizenship equal rights and a common destiny for all. A government that cannot or does not protect the humblest citizen in his right to life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness, should be reformed or overthrown, without delay.”

“Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.”

Poor Charity Various Honored Courtesy Delicacy Guise Intruders

Book:Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy

Source: Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy

“As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.”

People Reason Poor Rich Thousand Twenties Generosity Excellent Generous Relative Rich People Handing Over

Author:Honore de Balzac

“What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?”

Government Order Poor Powerful Periods Patient Reputation Posts Physicians Furniture Lamps Publicity Dazzle Concorde

Author:Honore de Balzac

“To say to a rich man: You are poor! is to tell the Archbishop of Granada that his sermons are worthless.”

Men Poor Rich Worthless Sermons Rich Man Granada

Author:Honore de Balzac

“how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!”

Poor Experience Disheartening

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.”

Poor Prose Inadequate

Book:Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.”

Ifs Looks Children Has Beens Care Poor Rich Angel Capability Alas Interrupted

Book:Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

“Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.”

Chance Poor Lord Rich Findings Losing Prejudice Towns Fellows Rough Nobility Rich And Poor Noblemen

Book:Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

Source: Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the Hudson

“O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!”

Heart May Prayer Poor Common Bitter Courtesy Mockery Utterance Bursting

Book:Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...

Source: Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis ...

“Being Black and poor is, I think, radically different from being anything else and poor. Poor, to most Blacks, is a state of mind. Those who accept it are poor; those who struggle are middle class.”

Thinking Mind Different States Black Poor Accepting Class Poverty Struggle Middle Middle Class State Of Mind

Book:Sacred cows-- and other edibles

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail, Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay; Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll; The temple of the Power whom all obey, That is the mark we tend to, for the soul Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.”

Way Soul Matter Play Suffering Heaven Goal Poor Dying Car Eternal Mark Flight Temples Immortal Decay Our Thoughts Veils Limbs Boundless Frail Capitol Sunbeams Poor Life

Book:Poems by James G. Percival ...

Source: Poems by James G. Percival ...

“Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It is a great privilege to be poor--one that no man covets, and brat a very few have sought to retain, but one that yet many have learned to prize.”

Men Poor Poverty Rich Doors Privilege Block Prize Brat

Author:George MacDonald

“Reckless haste makes poor speed.”

Poor Speed Reckless Haste Rashness

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.”

Men Trying Might America Change Poor Rivers Horse League Conventions Crossings

Book:Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

Source: Letters and addresses of Abraham Lincoln

“God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.”

Ifs Should Soul Religion Speak Poor Wander Dumb Wilderness Sinai

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed.”

Names Poor Reputation Trash Slander Libel Good Reputation Defamation Character And Reputation

Author:William Shakespeare

“When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.”

Men Should Made Stuff Poor Ambition Ambitious Cried Countrymen Julius Ambitious Man Brutus

Author:William Shakespeare

“There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.”

Together Wealth Poor Rich Mankind Members Office Mutual Commerce Intercourse Merchants Commonwealth Magnificence Good Office

Book:The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

Source: The works of Joseph Addison: including the whole contents of Bp. Hurd's edition, with letters and other pieces not found in any previous collection; and Macaulay's essay on his life and works

“In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.”