Famous quotes containing the words working, poverty and/or rates:
“I was always pretending that I was a poor-working-girl, always forgetting that I was really poor M also a working girl.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)
“Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)