Poor Condition

Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or condition:

“The proper education of poor children [is] the ground-work of almost every other kind of charity.... Without this foundation first laid, how much kindness ... is unavoidably cast away?”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)

“The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)