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Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

— Sophie Swetchine Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.

A woman who has not been pretty has never been young.

What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life; as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Strength alone knows conflict. Weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.

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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.

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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