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I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime read more
I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'
Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.
Oh, the little more, and how much it is!
And the little less, and what worlds away.
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
I wasn't born in a log cabin, but my family moved into one as soon as they could afford it.
Living from hand to mouth.
Living from hand to mouth.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with
poverty everything becomes frightful.
[Fr., L'or meme read more
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with
poverty everything becomes frightful.
[Fr., L'or meme a la laideur donne un teint de beaute:
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvrete.]
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
