Poverty
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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil
Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars
Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life
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