#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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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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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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It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

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I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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