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One can't truly feel for the starving with a full stomach.
Hunger and cold produce thieves.
One who becomes poor recalls old debts.
Money clarifies one's speech greatly, while no one listens to the poor.
Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.
When a rich man's dog died, everyone commiserated. When a poor man lost his mother, no one noticed.
A poor person's youth, like moonlight in winter, is never appreciated.
Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.
We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its ow ...
We all bear traces of the starvation struggle which for so long made up the life of the race. Our very organism holds memories and ...
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