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We are the first nation to starve to death in a storehouse that's overfilled with everything we want.

— Will Rogers

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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

A man that don't love a Horse, there is something the matter with him. If he has no sympathy for the man that does love Horses, then there is something worse the matter with him.

The Illiterate Digest (1924)

You've got to be optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

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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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