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• I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

  Elizabeth I

  Marriage, Queens, Mother And Daughter

  Statement to the envoy of Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, January 26, 1563.

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• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Knowledge, Purple, Belief

  Many Inventions "The Finest Story in the World" (1893)

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• Indeed I did not stand as a beggar at the Parliament door, for I never was at the Parliament-House, nor stood I ever at the door as I do know or can remember; not as a petitioner I am sure.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Doors, House, Literature

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• The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has all too much a professional air.

  Mary McCarthy

  Character, Eye, Air

  "America the Beautiful". Commentary Magazine, September 1947.

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• Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

  Octavio Paz

  Writing, Western, Knows

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• All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.

  Walter Benjamin

  Time, Giving, Consistency

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• Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

  William Shakespeare

  Vices, Poverty, Sin

  'King John' (1591-8) act 2, sc. 1, l. 593

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• God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

  Georges Bernanos

  Greatness, Shining, Should

  Georges Bernanos, Pamela Morris (1975). “The diary of a country priest”

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• Unless the old adage must be verified, That beggars mounted, run their horse to death.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Horse, Adages

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• Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Inspirational, Food, Animal

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• I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered.

  William Shakespeare

  Firsts, Taught, Should

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [439]

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• I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

  Mindy Kaling

  School, Costumes, Obsessed

  "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

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• A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by. Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me, For Christ's sweet sake and charity.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sweet, World, Charity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.40, Delphi Classics

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• Set a beggar on horse backe, they saie, and hee will neuer alight.

  Robert Greene

  Horse, Beggary

  Robert Greene (1883). “The Life and Complete Works in Prose and Verse of Robert Greene ...”

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• All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious.

  Homer

  Giving, Stranger, Zeus

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• He makes a beggar first that first relieves him;
  Not us'rers make more beggars where they live
  Than charitable men that use to give.

  John Heywood

  Men, Giving, Use

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• Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.

  William Shakespeare

  Thanks, Poor, Dear Friend

  William Shakespeare (2015). “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark”, p.54, Hackett Publishing

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• When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

  Albert J. Nock

  Benefits, Instinct, States

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• Furthermore, they were constantly informed by all the camp authorities that they had been abandoned by the world: they were beggars and lucky to receive the daily soup of starvation.

  Martha Gellhorn

  World, Soup, Lucky

  "Collier's", Volume 115, p. 156, Crowell-Collier Publishing Compan, 1945.

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• A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

  Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

  Political, Noble, Ears

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• Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Feet, Goes On, Revolution

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• Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.12, New World Library

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• Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pride, Want, Loud

  Benjamin Franklin (1836). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.100

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• Perhaps the most difficult task for us to perform is to rely on God’s grace and God’s grace alone for our celebration. It is difficult for our pride to rest on grace. Grace is for other people—for beggars. We don’t want to live by a heavenly welfare system. We want to earn our own way and atone for our own sins. We like to think that we will go to heaven because we deserve to be there.

  R. C. Sproul

  Pride, Thinking, People

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• You loved a man with more hands than a parade of beggars, and here you stand. Heart like a four-poster bed. Heart like a canvas. Heart leaking something so strong they can smell it in the street.”

  Frida Kahlo

  Strong, Heart, Men

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