"Very few people can afford to be..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
Very few people can afford to be poor.
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“Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read.”
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
“A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.”
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“Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.”
“Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.”
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow’s hands.”
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“A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.”
“I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money.”
“Taxes are paid in the sweat of every man who labors.”