Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Bertolt Brecht
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  1. It is a common condition of being poor... you are always afraid that the good things in your life are temporary, that someone can take them away, because you have no power beyond your own brute strength to stop them. - Rick Bragg

  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

More Quotes By Bertolt Brecht
  1. The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

  2. Natürlich muss die Wahrheit im Kampf mit der Unwahrheit geschrieben werden und sie darf nicht etwas Allgemeines, Hohes, Vieldeutiges sein. Von dieser allgemeinen, hohen, vieldeutigen Art ist ja gerade die Unwahrheit. Wenn von einem gesagt wird, er hat die Wahrheit gesagt, so haben zunächst einige...

  3. Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes

  4. Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.

  5. The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressed is indispensable. It is the world's one hope.

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