“Money can’t buy everything. For example: poverty.” — Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
Tag: poverty
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“It is not poverty, so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.” — Washington Irving, “The Wife,” The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon
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“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don’t mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.” — Susan Ertz, The Story of Julian
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” — James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem” in Esquire (July 1960)
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“Poverty never spoils a good man, but prosperity often does.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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