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• Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people. -- Don Herold
• So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
  -- Old Testament -- Proverbs vi, 11...
• Truffles must come to the table in their own stock .
  .. as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine--if you have never visited it--the desolate kingdom where it rules....
• The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
  -- Vice President Dan Quayle...
• Adversity borrows its sharpest sting from our impatience. -- Bishop Horne
• The *evident* character of this defective cognition of which mathematics is proud
  and on which it plumes itself before philosophy, rests solely on the poverty of its purpose and the defectiveness of its stuff, and is therefore of a kind that philosophy must spurn....
• Look round the wrecks of play behold, Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold
  Their owners now to jail confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. -- Gay...
• Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy
  and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at nigh...
• Idleness travels very slowly, and poverty soon overtakes her. -- Hunte