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Poverty has also endeavoured to enlist the usefulness of a hook-up wooden radio and a standing fan - albeit a scrawny and temperamental oddity.

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When the rain falls on the leopard, does it wash off its spots? Has the richness of kingly life washed off the love of our King for his people?

The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)

By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from tree to tree without falling.

The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)

The horns cannot be too heavy for the head of the cow that must bear them.

The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)

Until the rotten tooth is pulled out, the mouth must chew with caution.

The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)

When the frog in front falls in pit, others behind take caution.

The Gods Are Not To Blame (1968)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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