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• Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• God has always been hard on the poor.
• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, Line 298...
• Alms for the poor! Alms for the poor!
• She that paints her face thinks of her tail. -- Poor Richard
• The Poor? The Poor? I love the Poor. Pull!
• None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or to restrain himself to lust in his heart.
  -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac...
• It's a poor cook who cannot lick his own fingers.
• If a ferret bites you it is nearly always your own fault. -- Phil Drabble