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“Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.”

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Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“Beggars can't be choosers.”

Author:John Heywood

“Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.”

Turns Poverty Beggar

Author:Horace

“There is a saying in Tibetan that "at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.”

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Author:Dalai Lama

“The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.”

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Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous