#beggars

He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home. ↗

— Stijn Streuvels

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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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