Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Gerald Brenan

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Money The poor Poverty

Author

Gerald Brenan

Source

Thoughts in a Dry Season

Language

English

Time

1978 1970s 20th century

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Writer

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Malta Europe

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Brenan, Gerald. Thoughts in a Dry Season: A Miscellany. Cambridge University Press, 1978.

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I live in a rather special world. I know only one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.

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Pauline Kael
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Time
1972 1970s 20th century
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It would be hard to find a single instance of a direct assault by positive effort upon poverty, vice, and misery which has not either failed or, if it has not failed directly and entirely, has not entailed other evils greater than the one which it removed.

William Graham Sumner

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William Graham Sumner
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Sociology
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Time
1881 1880s 19th century
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