It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

It is poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

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.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.

So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as
an armed man.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

Hard as it may appear in individual cases, dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

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.

Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
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Thank God for poverty
That makes and keeps us free,
And lets us go our unobtrusive way,
Glad of the sun and rain,
Upright, serene, humane,
Contented with the fortune of a day.

The beggarly last doit.

The beggarly last doit.