Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor

Herman Melville
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  2. The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little. - Sherrilyn Kenyon

  3. [W]hen it's slow, they send you home, and when it's busy, they expect you to stay late. They also expect you to be able to come in to cover someone's shift if a co-worker gets sick at the last minute. Basically, they're expecting you to... - Linda Tirado

  4. A man may beg, but a woman has to sell. - Victor Hugo

  5. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools. - J.k. Rowling

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  2. So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trimming boat. Oh, ye foolish!...

  3. Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and hear the thunder through an ear which is smaller than a hare's? But if his eyes were broad as the lens of Herschel's...

  4. Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.

  5. But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

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