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“Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without suffering any inconvenience, in other words, to have the credit of poverty and the convenience of riches.”

Lying Suffering Poor Poverty Grace Aim Credit Riches Assistance Convenience Inconvenience Alms

Book:Introduction to the Devout Life

Source: Introduction to the Devout Life

“The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC [End Poverty in California]. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to 'End Poverty in California' I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.”

People Thinking Ends Facts Use Bigs Running Lying Enemy Poverty Cases Fronts Vote Socialism Labels California Tickets Socialist Epic Slogans Attacking

Book:The Jungle

Source: The Jungle

“Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!”

Together Lying Poverty Miserable Living Together

Book:An Edith Wharton treasury

Source: An Edith Wharton treasury

“Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty.”

Lying Poverty Virtue Depth Aids Helpless

Book:The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Source: The satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

“The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.”

Real Facts Lying Poverty Emotional Intellectual Weakness Ideals England Court Coast Creeps Incomplete Lanes Drunkenness Armament

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)

“I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of today. This is the way to learn grammar. Colleges and books only copy the language which the field and the work-yard made.”

Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the inconveniences of an honest poverty.”

Men Care Pain Lying Lost Wealth Grief Poverty Honest Riches Good Man Inconvenience

Author:Roger L'Estrange

“It seems to me that large numbers of people are now paying attention to poverty and that large numbers now understand that blaming the poor and the insecure for being poor and insecure is as unseemly as is schoolyard bullying. In that realization lies hope for a reinvigorated discourse around poverty and inequity in modern-day America.”

People Lying Poor Attention Poverty Blame Realization Pay Attention Bullying Insecure

Author:Sasha Abramsky

“As of today, we do not need expert reports by the authoritative analytical institutions to realise that the reasons for such a situation in our community lie in global inequality, poverty and illiteracy.”

Needs Reason Today Lying Community Situation Poverty Institutions Inequality Experts Reports Realising Our Community Illiteracy

Author:Nursultan Nazarbayev

“I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.”

People Thinking Mean Lying Poor Poverty Notion Dawn Poor People Dusk Ending Poverty World Poverty Contrary To Popular Belief People Lie Dawn And Dusk

Author:Emma Thompson

“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: Not that men are poor, - all men know something of poverty. Not that men are wicked, - who is good? Not that men are ignorant, - what is truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”

Knows Men Littles Age Lying Culture Black Poor Poverty Knowledge Diversity Tragedy Social Justice Ignorant Wicked Black History

Author:W. E. B. Du Bois