poverty Quotes

“The great principle of out-of-door relief is, to give the paupers exactly what they don't want; and then they get tired of coming.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you,—and full as much heart!”

― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

topic:heart poverty soul

“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

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“A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.”

― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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