They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.
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Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hinderances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it _ or they think you have.
Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.
The second most dangerous thing about money is that it leaves most of the people who have a lot of it with the unshakable belief that they are intelligent and well informed. The most dangerous thing about it is that it leaves most of the people who do not have a lot of money with the very same belief.
Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice.
Some women__ greatest achievement is sleeping with a man who is rich, famous, and/or wanted by many women, whereas some women__ greatest achievement is refusing to sleep with such a man.
A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.
An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased__ chances of going to hell.
The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.
When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.
Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.
If you understand this basic concept, it becomes clear that every spending decision is a spiritual decision. Waste, for example, is not a squandering of our resources. It is a poor use of His.
He had the tendency, unfortunate for a new member of the committee, to like if not the rich themselves, at least their activities and surroundings, and to dislike the poor; a woman in rags toting a baby, barefoot children, made him feel sadistic rather than compassionate.His socialism, then, had the impatience and unfriendliness of a fashionable doctor forced to attend a tramp run over in the street.
The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.
Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve
Life humbles the rich by giving them problems that money can__ resolve, or, dissolve. Life enslaves the poor by giving them problems that money can resolve, or, dissolve.
The lives of the poor are enriched by the richness of simplicity!