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Poverty: An unhappy state that persists as long as anyone lacks anything he would like to have.
Poverty begins at home.
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
-- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877)...
Poverty is inconvenient, try to avoid it.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient. -- Rev. Sydney Smith
Poverty is the mother of crime. -- Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus (490-575)
Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence.
Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone-call relationship...
Poverty Lurks: Financial paranoia instilled in offspring by depression-era parents.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Poverty makes people satirical- soberly, sadly bitterly satirical. -- Friswell
POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform.

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