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Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
Death and Dying
Horace

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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
Judgment and Judges
Edgar Watson Howe

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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Beauty
Kin Hubbard

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It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.
Poverty and The Poor
Kin Hubbard

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Bed is the poor man's opera.
Bed
Italian Proverb

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It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Mind
Andrew Jackson

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I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.
Worry
Joseph Jefferson

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There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.
Voting
Lyndon B. Johnson

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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
Welfare
Samuel Johnson

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He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.
Neglect
Samuel Johnson

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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Poverty and The Poor
John F. Kennedy

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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
Wealth
John F. Kennedy

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War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
War
King Jr. Martin Luther

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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.
Sexuality
Karl Kraus

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Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Work
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Humor
Latin Proverb

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The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
Life and Living
H. T. Leslie

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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.
Money
Joe E. Lewis

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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
Circumstance
Jack London

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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
Poverty and The Poor
Madonna

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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Influence
Orison Swett Marden

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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Riches
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy.
Sex
Groucho Marx

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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Riches
Karl Marx

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Ambition
Charlie McCarthy

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun