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A light purse is a heavy curse.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

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“An empty bag cannot stand upright.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“An hundred thieves cannot strip one naked man, especially if his skin’s off.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Now the trumpet summons us again—not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need—not as a call to battle, though embattled we are—but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself.”

John F. Kennedy · Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy, 1961 · Primary source

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