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“A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.”

Ifs Should Use Beautiful Poor Poverty Temptation Beautiful Women Her Beauty Circumspection

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

“Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.”

“There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.”

Has Beens Beautiful Joy Belief Beauty Poverty Sorrow Creatures Fellows Medicine Sickness Richness Delighted Forsaken

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.”

Mean Beautiful Poverty Support Dying Computer Ugly Noble Primitive Brutal Nasty Extensions Suspension

Author:Robert Anton Wilson

“All the history of the stage is a struggle, the gasping of a beautiful child born at the point of death. The moralists, censorship and oppression, technology, and now poverty have all tried to destroy her. Only we, the actors and audiences, have kept her alive.”

Children Art Beautiful Actors Born Poverty Technology Audience Struggle Alive Stage Oppression Censorship Moralist Actors And Audience

Book:The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

Source: The very best of Gene Wolfe: a definitive retrospective of his finest short fiction

“I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty.”

Home Kids Beautiful Mother White Poverty Grew Grew Up Parks Trash Mobile Playgrounds White Trash Loving Mother

Author:Taryn Manning

“We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That's not in the table for consideration now. And people don't understand that beautiful rage of Dickens because they don't share it. They haven't got time to worry about an oppressed culture, a subclass.”

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.”

Thinking Believe Made Dream Pain Beautiful Used Felt Silence Poverty Guilt Simplicity Generous Nightmare Sense Of Humor Waking Ugliness Eloquent Awkwardness

Book:The Bluest Eye

Source: The Bluest Eye

“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.”

World Use Hands Inspiration Beautiful Sides Wealth Half Poverty Wise Sweet Blessing Adversity Satisfaction Genuine Desirable Sunny Little Women Hearty Sunny Side

Book:The Portable Louisa May Alcott

Source: The Portable Louisa May Alcott