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Quotations Topic: Beggars (6 Quotations) |
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All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
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Walter Benjamin
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God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.
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Georges Bernanos
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Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
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Arabian Proverb
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As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.
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Oscar Wilde
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Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
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Anzia Yezierska
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