Famous quotes containing the word poor:
“The poor are disliked even by their neighbors, but the rich have many friends.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:20.
“The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run down by much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The poor man is he who, having much, craves for more.”
—Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.)
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