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 Sanford Hansell quotes 
 Bowling quotes 
Suggest Revision: The bowling alley is the poor man's country club.
 
 Walter Scott quotes 
 Cute Christmas quotes 
Suggest Revision: A Christmas gambol oft could cheer; The poor man's heart through half the year...
 
 Unknown quotes 
 Christmas Blessings quotes 
Suggest Revision: All you children of God, rejoice and be glad because a Savior has come to earth. The greatest miracle of all time has taken place. The child of God has come to earth in human form. He has been born not in a castle or in a palace, but in a poor man's stable. How humble our God is and so great is his love! Merry Christmas to you.
 
 Markesa Yeager quotes 
Suggest Revision: The truest human is the one whose conduct proceeds from goodwill and an acute sense of propriety, and whose self control is equal to all emergencies; who does not make the poor man conscious of his poverty, the obscure man of his obscurity, or any man of his inferiority or deformity; who is himself humbled if necessity compels him to humble another; who does not flatter wealth, cringe before power, or boast of his own possessions or achievements; who speaks with frankness but always with sincerity and sympathy; whose deed follows his word; who thinks of the rights and feelings of others rather than his own; and who appears well in any company, a man with whom honor is sacred and virtue safe.
 
There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other. Odysseus, outlining his own toils, reminds Achilles that the supreme honor which the latter receives from all makes light of death; but Achilles, complimenting Odysseus on the magnificence of his adventures, answers that there is no consolation in death, for it is better to be the living slave of a poor man than king of all the dead. Yet, it is hard to imagine Achilles as the slave of a poor man, and hard to believe that he is speaking a literal truth. He is emphasizing the cost of his greatness, the incurable sorrow of being Achilles. He is saying, "I have suffered the wrost, and identified myself with it; you have merely survived. And Odysseus, for his part, says: "you are very honored indeed, but you are dead; I am doing the really difficult and great thing." In the gulf between the two men, and their characteristic views of life, in a few lin
 Cedric H Whitman quotes 
Suggest Revision: There is a wonderful passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus meets the ghost of Achilles in Hades. They are profoundly courteous to each other. Odysseus, outlining his own toils, reminds Achilles that the supreme honor which the latter receives from all makes light of death; but Achilles, complimenting Odysseus on the magnificence of his adventures, answers that there is no consolation in death, for it is better to be the living slave of a poor man than king of all the dead. Yet, it is hard to imagine Achilles as the slave of a poor man, and hard to believe that he is speaking a literal truth. He is emphasizing the cost of his greatness, the incurable sorrow of being Achilles. He is saying,
 
 Laurel Aitken quotes 
Suggest Revision: I had a dream last night that I was a rich man, but when I woke up this morning I found out I was a poor man.
 
 The Rolling Stones quotes 
Suggest Revision: Poor man eyes a rich man, denigrates his property. A rich man eyes a poor man, and envies his simplicity.
 
 Nickelback quotes 
Suggest Revision: Never made it as a wise man. I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing.
 
 John Wooden quotes 
 Wealth quotes   Ability quotes 
Suggest Revision: Ability is a poor man's wealth.
 
 Pablo Picasso quotes 
 Wealth quotes 
Suggest Revision: I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
 
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