William Shakespeare on Poverty
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“Stepp'd me in poverty to the very lips.”
“No, madam, 'tis not so well that I am poor, though many of the rich are damned.”
“Poor and content is rich and rich enough, But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him that ever fears he shall be poor.”
“It is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty.”