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There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

— George Farquhar The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

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There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

I see you have a singing face — a heavy, dull, sonata face.

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We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.

The Constant Couple (1699)

’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.

The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707)

I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.

The Constant Couple (1699)

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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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