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• The Jewish usurers are fast-rooted even in the smallest villages, and if they lend five gulden they require a security of six times as much. They charge interest, upon interest, and upon this again interest, so that the poor man loses everything that he owns.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Men, Village, Six

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• We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.

  Pope Gregory I

  Humble, Men, Names

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• Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

  Pope Gregory I

  Honesty, Men, Fire

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• A poor man cannot rival the rich in luxury of life, but he can in luxury of knowledge. He cannot furnish his house as the wealthy can, but he can furnish his head. He cannot found a house of note, but he may found a mind of mark. Though some kingdoms may be adorned or afflicted with kings, learning has always been a republic, where all are equal who know.

  George Holyoake

  Kings, Men, Luxury

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• Is the care of the dying man truly robbing care from the poor man? How reliably can we know when someone is in the last ten days of life?

  Sheri Fink

  Men, Dying, Care

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the 1930s there was this tendency in Hollywood to portray everyone as rich. Even if they were doing a poor man's dance, they were all so nicely clothed, gowned, coiffured. That's why I decided to wear white socks, loafers, T-shirts, and blue jeans. I had a sociopolitical context in front of me: I was a child of the Depression who danced in a way that would represent the common man.

  Gene Kelly

  Children, Men, Blue

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

  Plautus

  Men, Kind, Wealth

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 864-67, Aulularia, II. 2. 30, 1922.

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• If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Joy, Citizens

  Benjamin Franklin (1820). “Poor Richard; or, The way to wealth”, p.23

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• Let the poor man mind his tongue

  Ovid

  Men, Mind, Tongue

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• Bring a lawsuit against a man who can pay; the poor man's acts are not worth the expense

  Ovid

  Men, Pay, Poor

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Sports, Xmas

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

  William Shenstone

  Hope, Men, Palaces

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.135

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• When a poor man, hungry and unseeing because his eyesight is failing, grabs me and starts begging, I feel the Nazi in myself. I abhor this man, and I want him to keep his hands off me.

  George Stevens

  Men, Hands, Want Him

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• What does the poor man do at the rich man's door, the sick man in the presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love.

  Francis of Assisi

  Men, Doors, Sick

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• There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Godly, Bad Ass, Men

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• Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it to rich men who immediately bury it back in the earth in great prisons, although gold hasn't done anything to them.

  Mike Harding

  Humorous, Men, Giving

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• In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Littles, Knaves

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• You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor.  Why should it?  The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government.  The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.  Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, War, Men

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Terror is the poor man's war, war is the rich man's terror. Ultimately, all wars will end either in annihilation or at the negotiating table. (#) A terrorist is someone who has a bomb but can't afford an air force.

  William Blum

  War, Men, Air

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• Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
  Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
  Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
  I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

  Frank Sinatra

  Wine, Men, Giving

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• The really poor man is not the one who lacks money, but the one who lacks the joy of the heart.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Heart, Men, Joy

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• God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Sick, Funeral

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.88, Omnibus Press

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• He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Care, Littles

  Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with his life, and notes on his Lives of the poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In eleven volumes ...”, p.490

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• The eighth commandment reads, "Thou shalt not steal." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the rich man." It does not read, "Thou shalt not steal from the poor man." It reads simply and plainly, "Thou shalt not steal."

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Doe, Rich

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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• It's something I've always kicked around, not doing the eBook but the Rich Man, Poor Man thing.

  Adam Carolla

  Men, Rich, Poor

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