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She had her sights set on being an English major. Owen admired the quixotic nature of her plan, its blatant impracticality, its vow of poverty.

— Jeffrey Ford Out of Body (2020)

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He kneels and prays to heaven but nothing happens.

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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.

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

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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.

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