poor

Cockney Rhyming Slang

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is an invisible group. In contrast to the old rhetoric of reform, they are not simply neglected and forgotten... what is much worse, they are not seen.

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform... what is much worse, they are not seen. Michael Harrington

is, as a rule, generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. Honore de Balzac

is a group that does not live, but dies by inches.

The destitute does not live, but dies by inches.

is most tragic in the poverty of their aspirations.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations. Adam Smith

is the human manure in which grow the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap. Octave Mirbeau

is always a near neighbor to an honest one, just as the rich man is to the knave.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave. Jean de la Bruyere

is in need of aid rather than recrimination. It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

is not, as is often claimed, happier than the rich. This is just as ridiculous as the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. Mark Twain

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