Who, being loved, is poor?

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About Oscar Wilde

Portrait of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.

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How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in?

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I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

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Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

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The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by the poor, it's because they do not know them.

—Mother Teresa

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Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, failure, misfortune—all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical.

—Robert Ingersoll

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The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

—Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

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Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

—Peter Ustinov

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It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer most from the consequences of them.

—Philippa Carr

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