we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end.
CLAUDIUS Alas, alas.
HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this?
HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

William Shakespeare

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One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children

Ron Rash

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The most impoverished peasant can be delighted by the opening of the first spring flower, and the most wealthy aristocrat can curse the day he was born because of some petty offense to his sensibilities. She is a very wise woman. To achieve serenity we have to view life not as it is measured by the world around us but as we ourselves measure it. We must accept that the scales are not at all equal.

Emma Wildes

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When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The rich spend their life living; the poor spend their life making a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Juice is a poor man’s dessert.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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