Big Books of 2026

Pauper Quotes

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Michael Bassey Johnson
“It is good to stay in a peaceful poverty than to stay in a painful wealth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: anger, careful, cherish, christian, corrupt, doing-evil, dread, dreams, ends, endurance, evil, failure, faith, flesh, happiness, hustle, hustling, income, life, materialism, michael-bassey-johnson, mistake, mistakes, money, pain, painful, pains, pauper, peace, peace-of-mind, poverty, temptation, tormented, torments, trials, trying, wealth
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Mark Twain
“Loose and forbear!”
― Mark Twain, The Prince and the Pauper
tags: language, mark-twain, medieval, pauper, prince, the-prince-and-the-pauper
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Michael Bassey Johnson
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become. Don't associate with fools, else your ancestors will be insulted. Don't be addicted to wine, else your pocket will be empty. Don't be drunk, else you'll be attacked.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
tags: achieve, achievements, addict, addiction, ancestors, association, attack, attacking, crafty, daydream, dream, dreaming, drink, drinking, drive, driving, drunk, drunkard, empty, empty-pockets, experience, fame, food-for-thought, fools, friends, friendships, illusion, life-lessons, michael-bassey-johnson, pauper, perfection, poverty, trance, wine, wisdom, wise, work, working
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John Marsden
“A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.”
― John Marsden, Hamlet
tags: king, pauper
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Ogwo David Emenike
“Happiness does not completely depend on comforts or opulence. Even a pauper can be happier than a prince.”
― Ogwo David Emenike, Happiness Recipe: Eat and Stay Happy
tags: comfort, happiness, happy, inspirational, motivational, opulence, pauper, prince, prosperity
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Stewart Stafford
“Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper's hibernation until Valentine's Day.”
― Stewart Stafford
tags: a-christmas-carol, dickens-christmas, dickensian, january, pauper, poverty, poverty-quotations, poverty-quote, poverty-quotes, scrooge
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“Turn thy crown upside down! You need to feel how it is to kneel as those less fortunate than your noble deal.”
― Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
tags: king, one-percent, pauper, poor, rich, wealthy
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“We live in a world where empty glasses are called paupers and juice-filled glasses are the rich. Painted water is not always what it is when transparency is part of the package.”
― Goitsemang Mvula
tags: colour, empty, full, glass, paintings, pauper, poor, rich, transparency, wealth
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Anthony T. Hincks
“He, who seeks to be eternal greed, shall be passed by the pauper in the street who calls him by his name as he searches for food amongst the scraps of society.”
― Anthony T. Hincks
tags: anthony-t-hincks, ego, greed, money, pauper, philosophy, proverb, saying, wealth
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Anthony T. Hincks
“I am a pauper in an abundance of wealth.”
― Anthony T. Hincks
tags: abundance, anthony-t-hincks, family, greed, money, pauper, quote-of-the-day, veitch, wealth
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