Show EPIGRAMS FOR TE POOR The Papyrus The only real poverty is that which pities itself Failure need not imply honesty nor will mere poverty be a password into Int heaven Poverty and wealth are not so much differences of conditions as they are dif dlf differences of opinion It is more difficult to receive than to gIve beware lest your gratitude be no nomore nomore more than a mask for envy Poverty is not a crime it is the only luxury in which the rich cannot af afford afford ford to indulge To be content is to be haDDY and happiness is one of the three who cn can cannot not be bribed the other two are love Jove and death Poverty is an honorable estate until the point is reached where man corn com b because cause he is poor but be because because cause another is rich Humility may be a virtue but SE ser servility r is not even a vice The poor may not know who are their enemies the rich cannot know who are their friends It is less bitter to starve in an attic than to feast upon plates of gold with suspicion as your portion The Irony of poverty is Its wealth of the Iroy of wealth is its poverty of ideas As a blind man sees no more from froma a pinnacle just so a fool learns no nomore nomore more from his opulence The poor weep because so many things which they want are unattaInable unattainable able the rich weep because the tamable things arc the only ones they want The disappointment of failure is not half so poignant as s disappointment the of success I |