#poor man

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships; the poor man everywhere lies low. ↗

— Ovid

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. ↗

— Democritus

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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt. ↗

— Ben Hecht

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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

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It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'voluntarily' sell - himself every day and hour to the 'beast of property.' ↗

— Johann Most

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The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture. ↗

— Plautus

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My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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