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It's scented! Your wedding invitations are scented?""It's meant to be lavender.""No, Dex - it's money. It smells of money.

Growing up, I never felt deprived. I was always happy. It seems only lately I've started seeing everything I didn't have.

That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me.

Mrs. Potts beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking havoc all over the love in New Gotham, granted what thankless ingrates you are. But here I am!

What's the best way to make sure that the poor have a share in a country's growing wealth: Regulation? Taxes? Philanthropy?

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

Other than the promise of life after death, nothing consoles the poor better than the fact that rich people are also subject to death.

The rich are all alike, to revise Tolstoy__ famous words, but the poor are poor in their own particular ways. Any reasonably intelligent reader could blow that generalization apart in the time it takes to write it. But as with most generalizations, a truth lies behind it. Ultimately, what binds the rich together is that they have more money, lots more. For one reason or another, the poor don__ have enough of it. But poverty doesn__ bind the poor together as much as wealth and the need to protect it bind the rich. If it did, we would hear the rattle of tumbrels in the streets. One hears mutterings, but the chains have not yet been shed.

Habits are the determinant of who will be rich or be poor.

MAMA: You must not dislike people __ause they well off, honey.BENEATHA: Why not? It makes just as much sense as disliking people __ause they are poor, and lots of people do that.

Poverty, like obesity, has the tendency to add at least ten years to the appearance of its victims, especially those who are over the age of twenty.

But one thing was quite clear_ he wrote. __B]eing broke didn__ disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time._ Bloom went on to become a congressman and one of the crafters of the charter that founded the United Nations.

History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.

There are poor men out there. And rich ones. Rich men never wait for nothing, so why would they be good? Good men are poor, because they have to count on others' kindnesses.

The bread which you hold back belongs to the hungry; the coat, which you guard in your locked storage-chests, belongs to the naked; the footwear mouldering in your closet belongs to those without shoes. The silver that you keep hidden in a safe place belongs to the one in need. Thus, however many are those whom you could have provided for, so many are those whom you wrong.

Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose; the rich have more to lose and they are more attached to their possessions. Poverty provides a deeper motivation for understanding your neighbors, welcoming others and attending to those who are suffering. I would go so far as to say that poverty helps you understand what happiness is, what serenity is in life.

Jesus never says to the poor: __ome find the church_, but he says to those of us in the church: __o into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church__ramatically and poignantly__he nature of its heart and mission.