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. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.
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It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
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If you don't get a lawyer who knows law then get the one who knows the Judge !.
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To do nothing is also a good remedy.
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It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet.
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How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
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No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
