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    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.]

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Who, being loved, is poor?

Who, being loved, is poor?

by Oscar Wilde Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared read more

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

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Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.
[Lat., Paupertas omnium artium repertrix.]

by Apuleius (appuleius) Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

The mother of revolution and crime is poverty

by Aristotle Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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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.

by Robert Browning Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out read more

Leave the poor
Some time for self-improvement. Let them not
Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms
For bread, but have some space to think and feel
Like moral and immortal creatures.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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One must be poor to know the luxury of living.

One must be poor to know the luxury of living.

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Poverty is the worst form of violence.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

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The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to read more

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty--the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

by Eugene O'neill Found in: Poverty Quotes,
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