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When I was a child, poverty was a common suffering for everybody around me. A common suffering is a richness in itself.

— Estela Portillo-Trambley

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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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