“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
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“Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.”
“The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.”
“Lack of money is the root of all evil”
“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime”
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich”
“The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing”
“Having nothing, nothing can he lose.”
“Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy”
“There is no one so rich that they don't need help or so poor that they cannot help”
“Charity gives itself rich, covetousness hoards itself poor”
“Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor ”
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity”
“To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole. ”
“Do not waste your time on social questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness. ”
“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable”
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers”
“Single women have a dreadful propensity to being poor”
“As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work”
“Our financial resources have run out and so the doors will soon be closing”
“Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father”