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Source: LINCOLN – Complete 7 Volume Edition: Biographies, Speeches and Debates, Civil War Telegrams, Letters, Presidential Orders & Proclamations: Including the Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt & 3 Biographies: The Every-day Life of the President, Lincoln by Carl Shurz and Abraham Lincoln by Joseph H. Choate

“Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.”

Thinking Should Self Helping Government Interest Poor Worry Industry Lows Fingers Italian Initiative Businessman Self Interest Morale Help The Poor

Author:Diego Della Valle

“I had to get rich so I could afford to sing like I was poor again.”

Poor Money Music Poverty Rich Get Rich

Book:Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

Source: Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

“Yet, sluggard, wake, and gull thy soul no more With earth's false pleasures, and the world's delight, Whose fruit is fair and pleasing to the sight, But sour in taste, false as the putrid core: Thy flaring glass is gems at her half light; She makes thee seeming rich, but truly poor: She boasts a kernel, and bestows a shell; Performs an inch of her fair-promis'd ell: Her words protest a heav'n; her works produce a hell.”

Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man

“Only poor people go to jail.”

People Poor Jail Poor People

Author:Charles Barkley

“Rather I'd choose laboriously to bear A weight of woes, and breathe the vital air, A slave to some poor hind that toils for bread, Than reign the sceptred monarch of the dead.”

Poor Air Bears Weight Slave Breathe Bread Reign Toil Woe Monarchs

Book:The Iliad ...

Source: The Iliad ...

“Shame is no comrade for the poor, I weet.”

Poor Shame Comrade

Book:The odyssey

Source: The odyssey

“Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.”

Ifs Men Wells Poor Destiny Shadow Wet Strokes Alas Wipe Poor Man Unkind Sponges

Book:Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

Source: Aeschylus II: The Oresteia

“The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.”

Should Ideas Poor Rich Should Have Leisure Shocking

Book:In Praise of Idleness

Source: In Praise of Idleness

“For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.”

Men Evil Wealth Poor Virtue Rich Integrity Riches Owners Good Man Evil Man

Author:Solon

“Your street, rich street or poor Used to always be sure, on your street There's a place in your heart you know from the start Can't be complete outside of the street Keep moving on through the joy and the pain Sometimes you got to look back To the street again Would you prefer all those castles in Spain? Or the view of your street from your window pane?”

Knows Looks Heart Sometimes Pain Moving Used Joy Poor Views Rich Streets Window Spain Castles Keep Moving Window Panes

Author:Van Morrison

“I feel like I have reached the stage where I can no longer produce for my club, my manager, and my teammates. I had a poor year, but even if I had hit .350, this would have been my last year. I was full of aches an pains and it had become a chore for me to play. When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.”

Ifs Feels Years Has Beens I Can Play Pain Lasts Games Fun Poor Stage Produce Baseball Clubs Managers Last Year Ache Teammate Chores

Author:Joe DiMaggio

“I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organizations such as the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.”

People Thinking World Poor Organization Trade International Fund Poor People Monetary World Trade World Bank World Trade Organization

Author:Bob Geldof

“Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.”

Giving States Poor Crime Criminals Punishment Offended Premium Subsistence

Book:Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

Source: Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy

“And behind their frail partitions Business women lie and soak, Seeing through the draughty skylight Flying clouds and railway smoke. Rest you there, poor unbelov'd ones, Lap your loneliness in heat, All too soon the tiny breakfast, Trolley-bus and windy street!”

Lying Poor Behinds Seeing Streets Loneliness Clouds Tiny Flying Smoke Heat Breakfast Bus Lap Frail Railway Windy Partition Lying Men Business Woman Trolleys Women Lie Skylights

Author:John Betjeman

“My, I get so depressed after a poor meal; that's why I can never stay in England for more than a week.”

I Can Poor Week England Meals

Author:Julia Child

“It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.”

Poor Achieve Poor Life

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.”

Writing Littles Long Has Beens Strong Grows Sleep Poor Long Time Affection Enjoyment Exquisite Lament

Book:Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal or a conservative value. It's an American value that I would think that we pretty much all agree on.”

Thinking Young Values Black White Poor Rich Rights Gay Red Agree Conservative Civil Rights Yellow Black White American Values Rich Poor Conservative Values

Author:Jerry Falwell

“Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.”

Poor Taught Proud Wine Beer Bliss Fancy Ecstasy Steers Muddy Ale

Author:George Crabbe

“I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living.”

Whole Poor Rich Saws Wise Stupid Proud Healthy Sick Humble Fats Beggar Crippled

Author:William Saroyan

“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”

Children Earth Night Poor Morning Rich Groups Streets Flower Grew Healthy Appearance Hungry Naked Dirty Dirt Nourishment Faded

Book:The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

Source: The Maxim Gorky MEGAPACK®: 61 Classic Novels and Stories

“Most of those evils we poor mortals know From doctors and imagination flow.”

Knows Evil Imagination Poor Flow Doctors Medical Mortals

Author:Charles Churchill

“I loved my father, but I was not like him. I never needed to believe the best of people. I took them as they were: two-faced, desperate, kind - perhaps all at once. But to Pa, they were all children of god, poor troubled sheep, who only needed love and an even break. He needed the world to back up what his religion told him about people. And when it came down to a choice between reason and faith, he let go of reason.”

People World Believe Kind Children Two Reason Choices Father Poor Break Needed Letting Go Desperate Sheep Child Of God Needed Love

Book:Far North

Source: Far North

“Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil”

Evil Poor Class Lows Roots Compromise

Author:Novala Takemoto

“Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!”

Ifs Men Remember Dies Poor Opinion He Man Depends Criticism Permission Doing Nothing

Book:The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

Source: The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.”

Men Values Fighting Left Loses Animal Poor Rich Wall Rich Man Poor Man

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.”

Should Has Beens Together Poor Results Cities Wonderful Century Built Stones Should Have London Bricks Should Have Been Picturesque

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person; they make friendships as kings of old made leagues, who sacrificed some poor animal betwixt them, and commenced strict allies; so the ladies, after they have pulled some character to pieces, are from henceforth inviolable friends.”

Persons Made Two Character Grows Women Animal Poor Pieces Kings Thirds League Intimate Expenses Allies Strict Third Person

Book:The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq

“And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.”