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Here are poor who, far from discovering their true selves through the pressure of their poverty, find in it a cloud which for ever hides them from themselves.

— Henry Scott Holland Our Neighbors (1911)

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Cleanse the body of this nation
Through the glory of the Lord.

We have, in our Slum Cities, manufactured a Poverty which, instead of bracing and disciplining our manhood into higher service, tends only to maim and stunt and discredit and degrade it.

Our Neighbors (1911)

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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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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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