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O Poverty! thou source of human art,
Thou great inspirer of the poet’s song!

— Edward Moore

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But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.

Fables for the Female Sex (1744)

’Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

The Gamester (1753)

Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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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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