Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. Blessed be nothing, and The worse things are, the better they are, are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldnt be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.”
—Jerome K. Jerome (18591927)
“When that the poor hath cried, Caesar hath wept.
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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