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In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

It’s such a Bore Being always Poor.

Poverty makes you wise but it’s a curse.

Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.