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I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Though I be poor, I'm honest.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

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.

I've never experienced chronic poverty, but I know what it's like to live on £3 a week.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.