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Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether

— Paula Brackston

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Better foolish and honest than clever and false.

Reputation is for those who can afford it.

Knowledge cannot be unknown. Experience cannot be unlived.

After all, are we not measured by the way in which we treat the most vulnerable members of our society?

There is none so quick to dismiss what they don’t understand as those who are afraid of it. And maybe with reason.

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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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