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“In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.”

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Author:Marc Chagall

“Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.”

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Author:J. G. Holland

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.”

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Author:Thomas Browne

“Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world.”

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Book:The Portable Louisa May Alcott

Source: The Portable Louisa May Alcott