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poor people

Noun

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people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group)

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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die. Jean-Paul Sartre

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God. Mother Teresa

Where rich people can make honest money, poor people have to steal. Gypsy Proverb

Poor people entertain with the heart. Haitian Proverb

For poor people small coin. Portuguese Proverb

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