There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.


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Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
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I think it's shameful that there is no barrier.
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Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me.
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Neither poverty nor wealth is in the wallet. They are all in the mind.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.
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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
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I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
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Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
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When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
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GEORGE ORWELL
I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL
I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS