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When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.
When you're really poor, everything you see
is something you can't have.
Living from hand to mouth.
Living from hand to mouth.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
Poverty is the step-mother of genius.
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.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that
which he hath given will he read more
He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that
which he hath given will he pay him again.
